I've been asked to substitute teach a Sunday School lesson to the youth of our ward. The lesson's title is "What blessings does Heavenly Father promise if I obey the commandments?" The short answer to that question is the title of this blog post: "All of them."
I truly believe that, if we obey all of God's commandments, there won't be any blessing that God would withhold from us. Of course, there are some blessings that God withholds from even His most righteous children for now, but I think that's mostly because, if He gave us such gifts right now, they wouldn't be good for us. There are some blessings that we're just not ready for, but I'm sure that God'll give them to us when we are.
Also, there are some things that we may want that will never be good for us to have. God would not give us those "blessings" as a reward for being righteous, mostly because they aren't really blessings at all. In fact, it would be more of a blessing if God kept us away from such things.
But when it comes to real blessings, things that are actually good for us, I don't think that God would continue to withhold those from us once we've proven that we're ready and worthy to receive them. It may take an eternity to achieve that level of readiness and worthiness, but we're a people that believe in eternity, so that's not really a problem. As long as we continue to make progress toward our goal of becoming perfect, there won't be any blessing God has that He wouldn't be willing to share with us.
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Oh, when I saw the title, I thought you were quoting Adam. Goes together, though, doesn't it? Don't they? whichever
And I think you are right.
Is that what you will say in the lesson? So, will it be a really short lesson. "All of them. The end." or a long lesson because there are so many blessings to talk about, besides discussing the Lord's timeline?
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