Scripture D&C 88

The Olive Leaf. So full of treasured knowledge. It is a long section, and I do t think I have been mindful reading the whole thing. I start out right, and then I get distracted by something and lose my focus. Maybe the key is to stop and think about the verses that catch my attention and begin again with new verses later. Who says I have to read the entire section I. One sitting?

So these are the verses that caught my attention today. 

To achieve the Celestial Kingdom we must fulfill the measure of our creation. We were born with a mission to perform. We must search out our mission and accomplish it. Patriarchal Blessings are a good guide. Prayer and scripture study can help us define our mission. This week at the Family Search Library a man was having a hard time with the computer. He couldn't attach sources to his people. So he pulled out his journal and was transcribing what he had written 10 years ago. He told me he found answers to today's problems in his own recorded words of a decade ago. Journals (in my case, this blog) can help us define our mission also. We must become who God sent us here to become.  

And we must o eye the laws of the Celestial Kingdom. If we want to reside there, we must practice the life of someone who lives there. 

This section talks briefly about the other two kingdoms of glory and then says this about those will not inherited a kingdom of glory, those who remain. 

They were not willing to receive anything better. Where we end up really is according to our choices. We must become and we must obey. Both are difficult, but the reward makes it worth the effort.