Achieving the Impossible

Place a cube of ice in a glass of water. It floats right? K, so now I have another glass. Looks like the same clear liquid. I'm going to add a cube of ice - should float, right? Wrong. It sinks.

It may look the same, but its not. We can look the same to other people, but what is inside and our final destination make the difference. It is impossible to make it back to live with our Heavenly Father and be perfect like him, unless we have something different inside us and use the atonement of Jesus everyday.

What would it mean to have it all? Be happy? Be safe? Be loved? Live with God? Yes, to all of it. "The secret to having it all, is knowing you already do.

We know from the scriptures, that the Lord does not expect us to "run faster than we have strength." And "King Benjamin indicated that “it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize.” God will not require more than the best we can give because that would not be just, but neither can He accept less than that because that would not be just either." We just have to realize we already have the power of the atonement within our grasp but we have to reach out and use it.

Also, as we recommit to returning to live with him, we must remember that "by partaking worthily of the sacrament, the commitment we made with our Heavenly Father the moment we entered the waters of baptism and when we received each one of the ordinances of the restored gospel."

It is possible for us to be happy now and forever. We need to fill our glasses with the right substance to achieve the impossible.