Blessed Are We

    We are all blessed in more ways than we can count. God blesses us more than we deserve even though we try to do all we can to deserve them. We never really deserve all the blessings we receive from Him, but He blesses us anyway because we do try. That’s what He wants; that we try. 1 Nephi 13:37 talks about how “blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day…”. While serving a mission, I came across this passage and it struck me a lot so I’ll talk about how blessed we are, how we must endure to the end to be lifted up at the last day and how beautiful upon the mountains we will be if we will do these things.

    In Doctrine and Covenants 130 we read that “there is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated-”. In order to understand the scripture in 1 Nephi, we must delve into the others to find more meaning. To me, the promise in 1 Nephi about being blessed for seeking to bring forth Zion is so true. For every little thing that we do in this life to bring forth Zion we will be blessed. God promises such and I have full trust in His promises. No matter how big or small that act of “seeking” is, we will be blessed, which, in turn, helps us have the strength to endure to the end.

    Enduring to the end is hard. No one has ever said that it is easy and I have come to find, in my short life of 20 years, that it is not easy. I had to endure to the end on my mission even when it was super hard. I was seeking and seeking to bring people unto God and to build up His Zion. I endured many hardships and it was all thanks to the blessings of God that I was able to get through it all. I know, because of this scripture, that I shall be lifted up at the last day. Certainly, I must continue and seek, however I know I will so I know and can have comfort in the blessing of God that “if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb;”. If we all continue to publish this peace of which is spoken in this verse, we will find these blessings poured out upon us.

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    We are blessed when we seek to bring forth His Zion in these days. We will have the Holy Ghost to be with us as we seek. When we do these things, God will bless us which will help us seek even more. I really like how God blesses us for being good which helps us be more good. How great of influence will we become when we endure faithfully and publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy!