{"id":9834,"date":"2018-09-18T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.latterdaysaintwomenofgod.com\/?p=9834"},"modified":"2018-09-12T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:39:29","slug":"what-makes-self-reliance-a-spiritual-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/what-makes-self-reliance-a-spiritual-law\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Self-Reliance a Spiritual Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><strong>This is a General Conference Odyssey post for the Sunday morning session of April 1981.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">What makes Self-Reliance a spiritual law? I\u2019ve asked myself this a lot over the years, mostly because every time Self Reliance is mentioned in church, people tend to roll their eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I\u2019ve been a Self-Reliance Consultant before, as well as Family History Consultant, and both are those eye-rolling\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">callings that make people feel very uneasy, guilty and cause avoidance issues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/general-conference\/1981\/04\/blessings-in-self-reliance?lang=eng\">Mark E. Petersen<\/a> speaks, during this conference session, about Self Reliance and his words really resonate. He says,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe must be industrious, we must be frugal, we must seek a proper balance between our needs and our desires, and especially we must reestablish our lives upon a spiritual foundation.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Maybe there&#8217;s a deeper connection to this statement than meets the eye? Is it possible that we preserve our spirituality (desires to be obedient to God) by temporally preparing for the future? Does our attitude about general obedience stay in check spiritually when we are concerned\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">our temporal situation? These are questions that deserve some serious contemplation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Regarding Self-Reliance, most people immediately think one-year\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">storage, gardening, and savings in the bank. But as time has passed since this talk was given, our country has seen a few economic downturns, yet it has also seen an explosion of affluence and security. Wars have always been distant to Americans. Where homelessness grows, so do government welfare households. And each year the idea of entitlement increases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">America is not the enemy here, but attitudes of Americans are rising to a level of aggrandizement that cannot be sustained. Is it possible to continue on this road and maintain our spiritual nature?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The reality is if any of us gets hit with a personal downturn, what are our chances of spiritual survival?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Elder Petersen clearly connects the two in his talk.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLet us never forget that our greatest resource is the Lord our God.\u201d Stating this point, he clarifies, \u201cLabor while it is called today\u201d (D&amp;C 64:25)\u2014obey Him, serve Him, walk in righteousness before Him, and \u201cbe ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord\u201d (D&amp;C 38:42). That\u2019s the law!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">God has given us suggestions in being Self-Reliant, on a temporal level, but He has commanded us to choose righteousness in order to receive His everlasting aid in a world full of daily wickedness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The spiritual side of Self-Reliance far outweighs the temporal, yet by obeying the temporal perhaps we keep a humble perspective, with ears to hear, in order to be safe on the spiritual side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Check your spiritual Self-Reliance levels today.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Am I reading your scriptures?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Am I praying regularly?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Am I obeying the prophet?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Am I sacrificing something in order to please the Lord?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a General Conference Odyssey post for the Sunday morning session of April 1981. 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