Be ye warned. I speak now of religion, a place where confusion is a constant companion and faith an eternal witness.Through the ages and the movements of time, the Lord has called on many to spread his love and what many deem to be the truth. I am by no means well learned in the way of religions. I only really know the one that I practice, and in that, I still feel that I know so little. Sure I was raised with a constant religion in my life, but what does that really mean? Well, it could mean that I know the simple answers. Before we ever started life here, we came from a loving Father in Heaven who sent us here to be tested and tried. We have agency to choose to return. In a great dispute, satan argued that we would be better choiceless. We battled for the right to choose and evil was thrown away from the Kingdom of God. Never to attain a physical body, satan tries to make us fail, tempts us, and thus fits into the Lords plan. Another stepped forward and agrees to take away our sins by paying for them himself. Jesus Christ is born into this world where he shares a true witness of our Father. We are forgiven our sins by using prayer, a direct communication with God. We give 10% of all the things we earn, a sacrifice to return to the Lord a part of what he has given us. There are prophets in these days as there are in the scripture. Our Father wouldn't leave us without proper direction, he wants us back.
I have turned in my mission papers. Whoah! That's right! I'm willing to give the Lord the next year and a half of my life. I love Him and I want to share His gospel. I have a perfect knowledge of the truths that I have learned. Perfect knowledge is a weird phrase right? Wait, so I don't know everything, and I still have a perfect knowledge? How does that make sense? A perfect lack? Let me explain. To my understanding, to have a perfect knowledge is like being on a platform. Faith and Hope are the ladder you climb to get to it. So by building in my faith I continue to climb and to grow, until I no longer have faith and simple belief in the Gospel, but I KNOW of the truth. I don't believe, I know it.
A question I get a lot these days is if I'm anxious because I haven't received my call yet...and I'm not. That's right, I'm not anxious or worried or anything. I am content. I'm turning my life over to the Lord. It is in his hands now. So I'll get my call when he wants me to have it. What that means for my fate I really don't know. So in the meantime, I can prepare myself. I won't be the best one out in the field I'm sure, but I intend to be the best that I can be. It could be said, and truly so, that I am anxious to get out there and serve the Lord. But I'm not going on a mission for me, I'm going on one for the Lord and the souls that he would have me reach.
I will learn and I will grow. I will serve as the Lord will have me.