Just a quick spiritual thought.
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about attitude and how it affects us. I have a few investigators right now who really just seem to put up with us and not care about our message. And it's really hard. It's hard to know what we have to offer and to see them just not take advantage of it. And really it's all about attitude. They don't want to listen because they feel that what they are doing now is more fun. It takes less effort, less responsibility and it's more pleasing. Two aren't married and all three like to drink and party with friends. Now I don't want to judge them as people, because I love them all and they are great, but there comes a time when this life and the things in it, should take a back seat to what we will have forever. Paul says in 1st Corinthians 13 something like this, when I was a child, I thought like a child. I acted like a child. But now that I am a man, I act as a man and have put away childish things. There comes a time in all our lives where our attitude needs to change. When we need to think about, not what we have now, but what we will have forever. We are told all the time to live in the moment. To seize the day. And I agree we do. We are also told to focus on the future, to always look forward. I agree with this too. But how can we do both? I submit this. We need to live like right now is the future. We need to live in a way that all heaven and hell hangs on our immediate actions. We need to focus on the future, right now. When we can do this, when we can have an eternal perspective and put it into action immediately, we can become the people that our Heavenly Father needs us to be, right now. Love you all so much. Keep praying and reading your scriptures and doing all you can to make our Father in Heaven proud.
With all my love,
Elder Flint
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