"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been since the fall of Adam and will be forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord and becometh as a little child, submissive, meek, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."
From this scripture we learn that we have to put off the natural man or in other words, sacrifice what would seem to be natural for us, but in return we become converted. Heavenly Father has set the standard and the blessings for keeping those standards. When he tells us that he will keep his side of the promise if we will keep ours, he means it! He will never go back on his word. When we sacrifice what seems so important to us for something Heavenly Father has asked he will give us something so much better!!
"A new heart also I will give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and...I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statues, and ye shall keep my judgments..."
Ezekiel 36:26-27
Our hearts and desires will change and we will become converted to his gospel! He simply asks us to sacrifice what we want for what he has commanded us to do! To turn aside from our natural man and follow him! To sacrifice those things that we want for something so much better! I have really been working on sacrificing those little things that are convenient at the time but maybe not necessary, for what Heavenly Father has asked of his missionaries! The small and simple things are probably the hardest things to sacrifice but they will bring the greatest blessings! I know we are blessed from sacrificing! His promises will never change! There is a great power in putting aside something that we want to follow the Savior! We receive such powerful spiritual strength from sacrificing!!
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