Tuesday, November 17, 2015
How to Live a Christ-Centered, Ordinary Life
Last Sunday, our Home Teachers talked with us about how we can live Christ-Centered lives, even when we are doing non-religious things. We can do this by praying frequently throughout the day and by trying to do things the way the Lord would have us do them. For example, I tutor English. There's nothing essentially Christlike about that. However, if I try to teach English the way Jesus taught gospel principles, with compassion and wisdom, then even something as simple as teaching someone how to correct a coma splice can become as spiritual as rendering loving service. I haven't had much practice applying this principle yet, but I plan to change that. I want to be a Christlike person, even when the things I'm doing aren't inherently Christlike things. Life makes us do mundane things more than we would like it to, but if we try to follow the Savior in everything we do, even the simplest things can help to bring us spiritually closer to God.
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Somewhere God tells us that to Him all things are spiritual. Even our mundane daily tasks have spiritual implications. We merely need to learn to recognize them and seek to live accordingly. Every dealing with other people indeed has spiritual implications. Not big earth-shaking implications, but important and spiritual nonetheless. When we interact with others in whatever circumstance, we are interacting with children of God. We need to simply keep trying to do our best.
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