What in the world am I talking about? well, GREED! SELFISHNESS! PRIDE! Being lulled away into carnal security. So if you wonder where I have been the last couple of months, it has been there. Those places listed above. I had so many things happen, so many wonderful moments that Heavenly Father allowed me to have, that I could have shared with you. And not only did you miss out, I missed out. Those experiences will never be remembered exactly the same as the day they happened. Which is why I write things down.
So what is carnal security? The best definition I could find was www.lds.org. It said "the word carnal refers to the flesh. To have carnal security is to find security in following the appetites of the flesh or trusting in worldly objects or ideas." Sound familiar? I was really taken aback while reading this article by Spencer W. Kimball. You can read it here.
http://www.lds.org/ensign/1985/03/becoming-the-pure-in-heart?lang=eng
My carnal security has been buying and looking for STUFF to buy. I don't know what it is, but lately I just want stuff. I feel I need things, and so I am determined to get them, but I really don't need them, I just want them. It is causing me to ignore a whole army of blessings that have been sent my way, and only focus on what I am missing to make me completely happy. Perhaps many of us feel this security when we get on Pinterest, and just HAVE to try something. If it takes away from those things that help us build Zion, it might just be, that it is a way for Satan to dull our spiritual senses and waste the day of our probation, if you know what I mean.
I am writing this because I said something to Justin last night that I regretted, and I knew the second after I had said it, that he had been so helpful the whole day, and he reached out in one more effort to help me with something that needed to be done, and I gave him a back hand instead of a reaching hand.
My effort now will be to refocus. I don't want to waste my days in this life. There is too much good that can be done, and too many great changes that I can make personally. So, Vamos! I will stop this carnal security and shake myself up a bit. Awake, my sons; put on the armor of righteousness. Shake off the chains with which ye are bound, and come forth out of obscurity, and arise from the dust. (2Nephi 1:23)
1 comment:
Thank you for this Cami. I have kind of been struggling with the same things ever since we bought a house. I get on Pinterest and there is just so many things that I want to buy to decorate my house and sometimes I forget that it's not the worst thing in the world to have bare walls because we are so blessed to have those walls in our new home to begin with. I definitely needed this lesson today. You are awesome. And I love you. And we should play! The end. ;)
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