Choice and Accountability #3

Agency, or the ability to choose, is one of God’s greatest gifts to His children. Read about agency in Joshua 24:15; 2 Nephi 2; and Doctrine and Covenants 82:2–10. With a parent or leader, discuss the blessings and responsibilities of agency. Record in your journal your understanding of agency and the consequences of choices and actions.

Joshua 24:15- "Choose you this day whom you will serve... but for me and my house we will serve the Lord."

2 Nephi 2-

• Men are instructed that they know good from evil.
• Redemption comenth in and through the Holy Messiah.
• All men will be judged according to their knowledge.
• Their must be opposition in all things in order for us to experience pain and joy.
• We are enticed by one things or another to give us the opportunity to choose.
• Because Satain is miserable, he wants us to be miserable.
• We are free to choose liberty and eternal life or captivity and death.

Doctrine and Covenants 82:2-10-

• Refrain from sin lest sore judgements fall upon your heads.
• Unto whom much is given, much is required.
• When we do what he says, he is bound. When we do not what he says we have no promise.

Agency is the power to choose what we do with the choices that are placed before us.  I know that we are all given agency in this life.  It is through the choices that we make, based on our own understandings, that will determine the way we are judged when we stand before God.  I know that when I do the things that he Lord has asked of me he is bound to give me the blessings he has promised.  I also know that righteous choices bring us peace of mind and happiness of heart.  When we choose incorrectly we are punished in two ways.  One is through natural consequences and the other is by the loss of the spirit.  I also know that Satan desires for us all to feel the way he does.  He makes things that are wrong seem fun and enticing, but I know that they only bring momentary pleasure.  By falling into these traps we feel burden by our sins. I think has an adult sometimes are choices are smaller, but just as important.  We must make sure we read our scriptures, take time to pray, and serve others.  These are daily choices that make a big difference in our ability to choose when other situations are presented to us.