S E L F R E L I A N C E
I have a lesson coming up in young women's about self-reliance. There is an article in the Ensign this month on that subject and I read with interest these quotes:
We should enthrone work as a ruling principle in our lives.
Quoting President Monson: Let us work for what we need. Let us be self-reliant and independent. Salvation can be obtained on no other principle. Salvation is an individual matter, and we must work out our own salvation in temporal as well as in spiritual things.
Our ability to serve is increased or diminished by the level of our self-reliance.
Quoting President Kimball: The responsibility for each person's social, emotional, spiritual, physical, or economic well-being rests first upon himself, second upon his family, and third upon the Church if he is a faithful member thereof.
By strengthening the temporal, we also strengthen the spiritual.
We shouldn't sit and wait for things to happen to us. We should be proactive.
Aren't those wonderful and thought provoking quotes? I have been thinking about how being self-reliant leads to an increased ability to serve. As I become more self-reliant, meaning--as I do more on my own, as I seek to master my self and my habits, I am more able to serve the Lord. Also, as I strengthen the temporal, I also strengthen the spiritual. There are many temporal aspects of my life and as I gain control over the temporal aspects, jobs, appetites, responsibilities, then I will become more God-like. I'm looking forward to studying this subject further.
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