Pray As If You Were To Die Tomorrow

At this point in time I am counting down the days. My excitement level is exceptionally high and my spiritual enlightenment level is through the roof. Never in my entire life have I ever stayed so dedicated and focused on anything until now. In 55 days it will be a whole year since I was baptized and confirmed a member of this true church of Jesus Christ and accepted the one true restored gospel that is on this earth today into my life. Since then I've done nothing but improve, grow, and learn which leads me to what I wanted to discuss in this post. In my journeys both spiritual and physical, which have taken place in this last year I've learned and discovered so much about the gospel, it's doctrine, prophets, history, Heavenly Father and of Christ the Savior himself that it's lead me to learn more about myself then I even thought was possible. 

Revelation comes to us in funny ways. It also comes in ways that are so profound that you have no clue what so ever how to deal with it or even understand. Both of these ways are very crucial for our spiritual growth and ability. But when simplicity comes your way, take advantage of that with nothing but positive intent. The title of this post is called Pray As If You Were To Die Tomorrow for a reason and that's to bring up a topic that was brought up in my stake's conference just two weekends ago. Like I said, revelation varies. But whether we realize it and understand what's being brought forth unto us is up to us. Everything comes in the Lords time frame and if we choose to ignore that or not take it as seriously as we should then that would be us bringing disappointment into our lives. Not Heavenly Father. Lately, I've been having a very hard time dealing with patience and discipline. Every single day I pray about it, asking for help and strength for me to do whatever it is that I need to do to please Heavenly Father, my supervisors and the costumers whom I'm working with at work since my discipline and patience problem has been stretched out the most with my work life. But if I had not recognized the importance in knowing that everything happens in the Lord's time frame, then I would have driven myself crazy by now. Which is where the phrase "Work as if you were to work a hundred years but pray as if you were to die tomorrow" comes into play and made a significantly huge impact on me. 

Since my patience and discipline had been tested the most recently, to hear Elder Snow of the seventy share that quote with us during stake conference, my eyes were opened to something completely new and amazing. Heavenly Father doesn't just give us what we pray for. He recognized what is in our hearts and what is in our minds, then when we come to him with our prayers and ask for him to place his hand in our lives is when he steps up to the plate and works with us. So when I would kneel and pray to him, asking for patience and discipline, he didn't just hand it over to me on a silver platter. He gave me more opportunities, whether it be at work, home or school to practice what I had been praying for. Elder Simpson also really helped me realize that the same day. But as long as we pray hard, work hard, play hard and love hard nothing can fail as long as it's all placed in Heavenly Father's hands. So I cherish that quote and I cherish the love and strength that Heavenly Father has provided me with. I know that my prayers are important to him and I know that he is very mindful of me and everybody on this earth. We just have to be in the right mindset and be willing to let him, his love and teachings in. 

Revelation has been a very important part of my life in these last ten months, quite obviously since my blog is called Revelation Revolution. But like I said revelation varies. To this day there are still things that I am asking for which Heavenly Father may not have provided an answer for me and he may have and I'm just not paying as close attention as I possibly could. Then there are times where it's like a whack to the face and with this stake conference, that quote was just like it. Heavenly Father works in very mysterious ways. But I'll always appreciate that because it makes you stop, think and listen. Which is something I'll always appreciate no matter what.