The lesson was about baptism. Baptism by immersion is symbolic of a re-birth. You are starting a new life where you have made a covenant with God. (Take upon you the name of Christ, always remember Him, and keep His commandments.)
Linda said that by the time she was 18 she really wanted to start over with a new life. Like most people she made choices that she was not proud of. So when she was baptized at 18 it was as if she was shedding a skin of an old life and becoming her real self.
I feel this way, too! I feel like I have "found myself" by striving to keep the commandments. That sounds like a really corny way to say it. Linda said it much better. It seems like I am becoming my real self - rather than a person who has made many mistakes.
I notice that when I am NOT being valiant in keeping the commandments (usually failing to read scriptures daily) then I am not becoming the person I want to be. I am unhappy and uncomfortable with myself, knowing that I could do better. Yet while I am keeping the commandments (a key part of the ordinance of baptism), I feel like I am becoming my real self - the person I want to be, the person I could be, and the person that God wants me to be.
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