Day 10 - Any progress?

Day 10  (April 16, 2011)

      Question:   How is the Lord my light?

      Read:

      Helaman 5:12

      “And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.”

      1 Peter 2:21

      “For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.”

       D&C 84:43-47

      43 “And I now give unto you a commandment to beware concerning yourselves, to give diligent heed to the words of eternal life.

44  “For you shall live by every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God.

45  “For the word of the Lord is truth, and whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

46  “And the Spirit giveth light to every man that cometh into the world; and the Spirit enlighteneth every man through the world, that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit.

47  “And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the Father.”

Ponder:  In the last ten days, have I tried to make decisions based on the question, “What would Jesus do if he were here?”  What have I improved on?

I’m not sure I’ve improved on anything in the last ten days, and that’s sad, because to go ten days without making progress is a waste of precious time.   It’s not like I’ve just been sitting around.  I’ve got a lot done.  I just haven’t made a successful effort at deliberately thinking through what Jesus would do and making decisions based on that.

And yet … maybe it has affected me subconsciously.  When I passed a person with a cardboard sign on the street corner, I found myself regretting that I had no cash to give him, which was a switch in attitude – usually I think about all the bad things the person would do with my hard-earned cash.  When I got a phone call from a woman in the ward who is intellectually handicapped, I actually listened to her and tried to see where she was coming from, what her real needs were behind her phone call to me.  I’m not sure if I will ever be the kind of person Jesus wants me to be.  But I will keep trying.  One day, one experience at a time.