Except for a short period of time in my teenage years, I have always wanted to be a “good girl”. I don’t like to get into trouble. I like the feeling of being reliable and someone that someone can rely on and trust. I hate feeling like I let someone down, I hate the feeling of being wrong or doing wrong, whether on purpose or by accident. Sometimes I wonder if I feel like this because I don’t like the negative consequences that come from doing wrong. Sometimes I think about the blessing I want or need so I choose the right. More often than not it is because I want to be seen and known as a “good girl”. Either way, I hope my ultimate feeling for being obedient is because I love my Savior and all that he as done for me. And I want people to know I am trying to be good because I am trying to be like Him.
The Savior taught in John 14:15, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” One of my favorite quotes from reading and studying this week came from Carol M Stephens. She said, “His commandments are a manifestation of his love for us and obedience to His commandments is an expression of our love for Him.” Thinking about His commandments, I consider what they really do for us. They are our protection. They are given to us so we can be safe from harm, both temporal and spiritual. They are directions to have pure happiness and joy in our life. They keep us close to our Savior. When we forgo the importance of keeping His commandments, we are forgoing the safety and peace that He promises us. When we pick and choose which commandments we want to keep, we are forgoing blessings that can only be obtained from obedience to certain commandments.
As we look to our Savior as the perfect example we can see that He was perfectly obedient to the Father. We should have that same type of obedience, doing are very best to follow all that we are commanded showing Our Father and His Son our true love for them.
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