21 I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.
No matter what we do we cannot ever even hope to come even close to doing enough to make ourselves profitable in the eyes of our lord. The beauty of this gospel is, and King Benjamin is quick to point it out, that we were never expected to be profitable, all God asks of us is to follow his commandments.What are his commandments? His commandments are there not to tie us down, but to liberate us. People often think, that commandments limit us, but the truth is that in the long run they liberate us, to illustrate my point, imagine a man wants to go swimming, and a sign says: CAUTION Whirlpool, now this man has one of two choices, he can either choose to ignore the sign and go swimming and possibly drown or turn around and go swim somewhere else, at this exact moment he has an unlimited amount of choices but once he steps into the water and gets pulled into the current, all of his agency is gone, and he is at the mercy of the water, but if he decides to step away he has his agency to go swim at another place or do something eels entirely. Its the same way with the commandments once we break them we lose agency but if we keep them we are free to do whatever we darn well please, it seems counter intuitive but I testify of this fact.
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