Awhile ago I was skyping a friend of mine, the computer she was using at the time didn't had a microphone, so we were talking on the phone and skpying for the use of the webcams
During our conversation, her phone died and then we started to type, she typed her phone died but it's only temporary. I then typed "The same with this life" and we had a good short conversation on this analogy that we made up.
Today I want to expound on the analogy.
Phone= Us
Charger= Atonement
Charging= Repenting
If we're the phones, we need a way to recharge. The charger, being the Atonement
is able to make us recharge.
If we didn't had any chargers, how would we be able to charge our phones?
Alma 34:9 reads
For it is expedient that an atonement should be made; for according to the great plan of the Eternal God
there must be an atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish; yea, all are hardened; yea, all are fallen and are lost,
and must perish except it be through the atonement which it is expedient should be made.
So basically, without the charger being made, our phones would perish.
Be reconciled with our charger
Jacob 4:11:
Wherefore, beloved brethren, be reconciled unto him through the atonement of Christ, his Only Begotten Son, and ye may obtain a resurrection,
according to the power of the resurrection which is in Christ, and be presented as the first-fruits of Christ unto God,
having faith, and obtained a good hope of glory in him before he manifesteth himself in the flesh.
Plugging our phones into the charger is repenting. How many of you had thought you plugged in
your phone for work the next day, just to find that your phone was dead. That has happened to me a couple of times, not a great feeling ha
Alma 34:33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life,
which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life,
then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.
Alma 12:24 "And we see that death comes upon mankind, yea, the death which has been spoken of by Amulek, which is the temporal death; nevertheless there was a space granted unto man in which he might repent; therefore this life became a probationary state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection of the dead."
Do not procrastinate the day of our repentance, this life is a probationary state to prepare to meet God. if you think waking up to find your phone was dead was a bad feeling, imagine if you procrastinate repenting and then end up for at the final judgement, what would you be feeling then?
Have any of you had a phone which you never had to charge at all?, we need an infinite power source to charge our phones, just as with the atonement.
2nd Nephi 9:7
"Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man
must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more."
Charging our phones (Repenting)
"Oh no, I have 5% left on my phone"
Alma 42:29
And now, my son, I desire that ye should let these things trouble you no more, and only let your sins trouble you,
with that trouble which shall bring you down unto repentance.
I'm pretty sure, that most times when we see our phone is about to die, we get this urge to try and charge it, the percent could be our sins, and when it says "and only let your sins trouble you, with that trouble which shall bring you down unto repentance" our phones could be at 5%, and we hurry go charge our phones. so we do repenting.
Recharging our phones aka repenting is not a one time thing.
3rd Nephi 11:14 "Arise and come forth unto me,
that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet,
that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.
I hope that whenever you see your phone and charger, you'll think about the Atonement
Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it
