When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example.
Interpretation
Making a covenant with God reflects a choice that impacts future generations' hope and values.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal choices regarding spiritual commitments, specifically covenants with God. It suggests that these choices not only influence an individual's life but also serve as a beacon of hope for future generations, encouraging them to adhere to similar values and beliefs that one exemplifies through their actions and decisions.
In practice
In a sermon about life's choices, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of leading by example.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember Godβs kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
Crime generally punishes itself.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
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