042725, Sunday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 225.5, GMI: 6.7, Steps (previous day): 9,457

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

D&C 40:1 Behold, verily I say unto you, that the heart of my servant James Covel was right before me, for he covenanted with me that he would obey my word.

2 And he received the word with gladness, but straightway Satan tempted him; and the fear of persecution and the cares of the world caused him to reject the word.

3 Wherefore he broke my covenant, and it remaineth with me to do with him as seemeth me good. Amen.

"Of a prominent early investigator of the restored Church, who covenanted that he would obey any command that the Lord would give him, it was said, “And he received the word with gladness, but straightway Satan tempted him; … and the cares of the world caused him to reject the word.” Contrast that with the Lord’s clear statement: “He that receiveth my law and doeth it, the same is my disciple.”...

Now is the time to exercise our faith. Now is the time to commit to righteousness. Now is the time to do whatever is required to resolve our undesired circumstances. Now is the time to reconcile with God through the merciful process of change afforded us by the Redeemer of mankind.

Elder Donald L. Hallstrom of The Seventy, October 2007