Working out at 5:00 in the morning at the BYU-I gym has some great advantages. One of them is you can listen to BYU devotionals while you are on the elliptical. Another is that you can pretty much pick any freshly cleaned elliptical you want because there aren't very many other crazy people in Rexburg who are at the gym that early.
I usually have an inner struggle if the the TV's are on between the part of me that just wants to listen to music and the part of me that knows that, if I listen to the devotional, I will get an amazing gift of hearing something that will actually help me or my family. I am glad to say I usually listen.
Yesterday, there was one point in this wonderful talk, right between minutes 24:04-25:05, where Osguthorpe said something that made me think hard about freedom and love and their opposite.
"it is impossible to love unless we choose to love. Love must come from within. It cannot be forced upon us. So for purposes of his own selfish aims, the adversary would have made it impossible for us to keep the first two commandments. He would have made us into nothing."
He would have made us into nothing.
Let's hear it for a God who would make us into everything that is good.
But only if we freely choose it.
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