This week I had the chance to visit
some good friends and we shared with them a message given by President Eyring.
President Eyring brought up a teaching of the prophet Joseph Smith, “Satan has
power over us only to the degree that we permit him.” As I thought about this
more, I remembered a scripture from the Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 2:27.
27 Wherefore,
men are free according to the flesh; and all things
are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and
eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose
captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he
seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself.
We
are able to choose our path in this life and we can choose between right and
wrong. We are able to choose life and liberty because of our Savior Jesus
Christ. He made it possible for us to be able to receive forgiveness and for us
to live again and become resurrected. We can choose life and liberty by
following Christ’s teachings. Not choosing sin will keep us from being bound by
Satan to experience his misery. By choosing to live Christ’s teaching, we will
experience joy and peace in this life and in the next.
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