Day 323

  • Principle: Agency is eternal.

  • Book of Mormon Reading: Mormon 2:17 - 2:29

    • Mormon writes about the wickedness he views, if God loves these people why does he allow them to choose wickedness?

    • What does the phrase “we were left to ourselves” mean to you in verse 26?

      • Ray H. Wood taught: “When a person violates any of God’s commandments, if there is no repentance the Lord withdraws His protective and sustaining influence. When we lose power with God, we know of a certainty that the problem lies within us and not within God. ‘I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise’ (D&C 82:10). Our misdeeds bring despair. They sadden and extinguish the ‘perfect brightness of hope’ offered by Christ (2 Nephi 31:20). Without God’s help, we are left to ourselves” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1999, 54; or Ensign, May 1999, 40–41).

  • Have you ever wished someone else would just tell you what to do?  Moses 3:17 states “Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee"

    • Why is agency important to you?

  • Turn to 2 Nephi 2: 11-12 and think about why agency requires opposition.  

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