Are We Prepared?

Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.  

3 Nephi 25:4-6 

One of the reasons that we are still under a curse as a people and not establishing Zion, is that we are not keeping all the commandments.  We need to keep the Law given to Moses at Horeb.  The only problem is that many changes and traditions have been added over the millennia, which make it difficult to follow the original Law that God gave to Moses at that time.  It is a good thing that Christ came in the meridian of time to correct that Law. 

On the surface, Christ gave us six major corrections to that Law, all following a simple principle.  The principle is to take the Law and apply it to our minds and to our hearts.  For example, when the Law states; Honour our father and mother, we need to make it part of our internal make up, not just a physical act.  Physical laws are telestial, and if we are aiming for a celestial glory then we must live a celestial law. 

So, we not only take care of our parents as though they were of the highest stature, but we must also apply it to our minds.  We should be thinking about how to honour them, and coming up with ways to do so.  We should be planning ahead so that when our parents get old, we are prepared and ready to care for them.  Then we will have met the requirements of a terrestrial order.  Far more than just physically caring for them, now we are mentally prepared and invested, prepared for any eventuality so that we can undeviatingly honour our parents. 

But since we are still aiming higher yet, so we strive to apply the Law to honour our parents to our hearts.  It must become a part of us; it must be the core of our hearts; it must be that to which we turn for our own joy.  And if it is our joy to honour our folks, we have become one with them, then when would we ever not be prepared, or when would we ever not meet all the physical and temporal and psychological and emotional and spiritual requirements?  It is our greatest joy, and we have celestialized that Law.  Now, and not before, are we worthy for a portion of a celestial glory. 

The Law given at Horeb was not replaced at the coming of Christ, but it was corrected, made new and complete, fulfilled.  And it is the declaration of the Lord that we must live this law in it’s complete, correct, and full form to meet the requirements of the Holy City. 

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