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How does making right choices help us make more right choices?

  • Cindy

    I believe the first step is the hardest. To walk away from a bad habit, to remove yourself from a bad situation, to make a change for the better is always hard. For many years I was not attending church and making choices inconsistent with gospel teachings. The first time back to church was the hardest. I felt that I was unworthy, unwanted. But that first Sunday back, I was welcomed by people I had never met. People seemed glad to see me and wanted me to return. As I began to associate with more righteous people it was easy to leave unrighteous habits behind. As I focused on my Heavenly Father and His love for me, I shed the feelings of unworthiness. I remembered that He loved me. Show more

  • Jason

    Making the right choices is never easy, but doing the right thing becomes as natural as breathing the more you do it. All of a sudden you will wake up and realize your life has changed for the better and you make choices naturally that once you had to thnk about. Like the flywheel effect, the more choices you make that are right the easier it becomes until the right choices come as natural as breathing. Show more

  • Emily

    Mormons often get asked if it's hard to follow all the "rules" we have. But I have to say that it's incredible how much easier it really is to make the right choices than to make wrong choices. I think the main reason why is because God wants us to be happy. He only commands us to do that which will bring us happiness and joy. In the moment it might seem harder to walk out of an inappropriate movie or to stand up for something we know is right, but it is so worth it. When we make the right choices, the Lord promises us peace--not as the world giveth, but as He gives John 1427, Bible. When we have that peace, we can feel the Holy Ghost, who helps us resist temptation and keep what's most important in focus. Really, choosing the right actually liberates you and makes you more free. When I got my first job at age 15 I decided that I would keep the Sabbath Day holy by not working on Sundays. In order to keep my commitment I had to use all of my days off for Sundays and find people to trade shifts with me. I basically had no other days off for the whole summer, and a lot of my coworkers thought I was odd, but choosing not to work Sundays allowed me to make the choice to go to church every week. Choosing to go to church allowed me take the sacrament each week. Choosing to take the sacrament helped me feel clean and strengthened my testimony of my Savior. This allowed me to make the choice to go to the temple later on. Going to the temple helped me choose to be sealed to my husband when we were married. Each good choice helps you choose to do more good and wonderful things that bring so much happiness. Show more

  • Kaylee

    When we frequently are doing what is right, the spirit will dwell with us in our daily lives and make us strong against temptations. This will strengthen us, and make it easier for us to say no to the things around us that are wrong. In the bible, book of Matthew, there is the story of the ten virgins who were waiting for the bridegroom one night. Five brought extra oil for their lamps, while the other five did not. After waiting for many hours, the five without extra oil had run out and cried out for help. Every time we choose the right, and live righteously, it's like adding an extra drop of oil to our lamps. Each drop makes us more prepared and stronger so that we won't be in the dark and will know the way. We won't make wrong decisions because we will know without a doubt what is right, because we will constantly have God's light in our lives! :) Show more

  • Brad

    it takes faith to believe in making right choices, and once courage is used to make right choices, good feelings should result in the process, like the peace of mind that is found from making right choices, this develops confidence, it is in this god given confidence we develop a sincear rightious behavior cycle of trust=peace=confidence=hope=love that is chairty. this way leads us to continually choosing the good in all things. thus having love for one another. but the reason we make "more" right choices is found in the principal of abounding in truth and light, because we are children of God with infinate worth. "Abounding" for "more" is a expedential growth process from God. in D&C 88;50 says, i am the true light that is in you, and that you are in me; otherwise ye could not abound. 88; 66 says, truth abideth and hath no end; and if it be in you it shall abound. because right choices brings more light into our life, light attracts light and not only is light decernable but its desireable, and when we taste this good light why would we go back to what tastes bad ? Show more

  • Gigi.

    I have learned that making a right choice does more than just help me feel good about myself. A right choice has "eternal implications." Our Father in Heaven knows our thoughts and our mind. He blesses us when we make right choices. I have experienced this many times. When I make the decision to do what is right, my faith increases. My testimony grows. I grow nearer to my Savior. I am always blessed when I make right choices. OK, it isn't always easy to do the right thing and of course I sometimes mess up, but Heavenly Father never fails me! Show more

  • Tori.

    It's cumulative. When you make a right choice, you increase the Light by which you may judge truth and error. I'm speaking figuratively AND literally. Our Spirits are full of Light when we are doing and living right with the Lord. As we apply more "right-ness" to our lives, we increase the Light that comes into our lives. When we have more of something we draw more of that thing into our lives. Like attracts like. Jesus told us so numerous times and in numerous ways. For instance, "By what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you," is an example of like attracting like. So, when you may right choices, you are empowered by the greater Light that is within you to choose Right more frequently because you are attracting more RIGHT to your life. Unfortunately, because there must needs be oppositition in all things, the same is true in reverse. So, make sure to avoid knowingly choosing wrong to be rebellious!!!! Show more

  • DaeNeese

    I have found that making the right choices helps us to make more right choices because when you do something good you feel good and therefore are blessed with a desire to do more good. That doesn't mean that temptations to do bad things go away. They still come. But your character is built stronger when you do the right things so it is easier to say no to the temptations that come your way. For instance, I know that when I eat too much sugar I feel rotten a little later so when I choose to have one cookie instead of five i feel better about what I ate and my body feels better too. It doesn't mean my tastebuds don't want another one but it is easier for me to say no when I know my body will thank me in the long run. When you make a right choice you can recognize how happy you feel and then want to choose the right again. Show more

  • Val M.

    Sometimes people think that following Heavenly Father's commandments puts limits on how they are able to live their life. In reality keeping the commandments gives us more freedoms in life than disobeying our Heavenly Father. Those who drink, smoke, do drugs, or view pornography are hindered by their addiction to whatever their vice may be. As they choose to make daily decisions they must be sure to incorporate those addictions into their day, whereas a person without those addictions has complete freedom. As you notice the reasoning behind your freedom, you will be more inclined to make right choices in your life, allowing yourself to maintain your freedoms. Show more

  • Sarah

    By making right choices we put an armor of righteousness around us, and it allows a greater measure of the Spirit of the Lord to be with us, thus making it easier to make other right choices. Each right choice that I make helps me to maintain my faith and hope in Jesus Christ, which motivates me to follow His example. Show more

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