Continuing from ‘Walk in the Light’, Elder Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his book “Chose Higher Ground” wrote: . . .
But the spirit who led the rebellion in the world before still opposes the plan and wants you to be miserable. He wants you to never find your way home again. The enemy of you soul knows you and your goodness. He knows that if he can turn you away from walking in the light, he can both catch you and stop you from others along the journey. He knows how good you are and your power to influence to teach and influence hundreds of Heavenly Father’s children in this life, and thousands over the generations that will follow your path. If he can get you to wander away from the light on you journey, he can do harm and bring misery to many.
God recognizes your great importance and that you have chosen to walk in the light He offers you. Such choices are not always easy to see clearly. You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away towards darkness. Some of the most important choices are on what you set your heart upon.
There are so many things you may consider desirable. For instance, all of us want, to some degree, the approval of other people. All of us feel a need for friends. All of us are searching for some evidence that we are persons of worth. We make choices based on those desires. Some might lead us away from the light God offers us as a guide. Some may brighten the light by which we can find our way.
As I look back, I realize that I was unaware of the importance of some of those desires and choices. I wanted to be selected for athletic teams. I wanted to do well in school. I wanted to find good and true friends. And when I made the choices that came from those desires, more than realized, I was either moving away from the light or toward it.
Some of my achievements and some of my friends where major factors in my sensing light. Others, more than I knew at the time, were edging me away from the light. In important and long-lasting ways, choices I made to satisfy my desires for companionship and a sense of recognition were taking me either toward or away from the light to guide my path.
Long ago Heavenly Father, through his prophets gave us a way to know which choices matter the most and why—and how to make them. The best summary I know is in the words of Moroni as he quotes his father Mormon: “But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth go good continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God. Wherefore take heed . . . take heed that ye do not judge that which is evil to be of God, or that which is good and of God to be of the devil.
“For behold my brethren, it is given unto you to judge, that ye may know good from evil; and the way to judge is as plain, that ye may know with a perfect knowledge, as the day is from the dark night’ (Moroni 7:16-15). ~~~Elder Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his book “Chose Higher Ground”: Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, 2013) p.29-31 (continued, see. . . ‘Walk in the Light III”
