* We are free to be obedient.

Boyd K. Packer said: “Some people are always suspicious that one is obedient only because he is compelled to be. They indict themselves with the very thought that one is obedient only because he is compelled to be. They feel that one would obey only through compulsion. They speak only for themselves. I am free to be obedient, I decided that—all by myself. I pondered on it; I reasoned it; I even experimented a little. I learned some sad lessons from disobedience. Then I tested it in the great laboratory of spiritual inquiry—the most sophisticated, accurate and refined test that we can make of any principle. So I’m not hesitant to say that I want to be obedient to the principles of the gospel. I want to. I have decided that. My volition, my agency, has been turned in that direction. The Lord knows that.~ “Obedience.” 1 Oct 1971, pp. 7-11; “The Only True and Living Church.” Ensign, December 1971