Look in the Mirror

As Kyle brought up, you have to love yourself.  In fact, can one love someone else, with Charity and not love themselves?  Many people have said that before one can love someone with the pure love of Christ, they need to love themselves.

Last post we talked about starting on a project to choose someone in the ward, or somewhere, and try to find and exercise the first steps of Charity.  So if you started to love someone, get acquainted with someone, and learn the beginning steps of Charity, congratulations.  Keep your goal going, and we shall touch upon that at a later date, but I have been "told" to dwell a bit more on loving oneself.

We have the DNA or the potential to become a God.  We need to incorporate that into our mental exercises each day.  When we begin the daily routine, it would be wise to start the planning of each day the fact that we are children of God, with attributes, and potential that is from our Father, or GODLY.

Let's say that every morning, we look in the mirror as we prepare for the day and imagine our potential.  We look at the image staring at us and envision that the person staring at us can be a God creating worlds one day.  That person is not perfect, but can be.

Let's imagine the attributes of our Father or of Jesus Christ. Let's think of ourselves endowed with Godly abilities.  Do not look at what you think is there, but envision one looking at you as a God one day.  Think of your talents, your abilities, the good you have done recently, and remember the love that our Father has for us.

We need to understand that He is aware of us, knows our weaknesses and has paid a great price for us, and is doing all He can do to help us become a God.  It is His desire, His work, and His dream that we will, indeed, become like him, being a God.

We should not dwell on our sins, or failures, what we cannot do, or have not done.  That comes from Satan.  We need to set plans each morning  how we are going to rid ourselves of any negative thoughts, and fill our minds with positive thoughts and think often our our potential.

This needs to be done every day.  We need to incorporate these thoughts in our daily actions.  We need to recall these things throughout our day and live AS IF we were a God.

We need to remember that the trials, afflictions, challenges are for our benefit and we will learn from them, but we need keep divine thoughts in our mind and slowly we will overcome the influences of that evil one.  We will move toward our destination.

Next Post, Wednesday March 25.