"If Only"

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If Only...
This is the idea of Hell that we would meet our glorified, perfected, happy self. Then we get to live for eternity knowing that we could have been that person IF ONLY we had worked a little bit harder and put forth a little more effort.

"Spiritual Privileges"

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From Sheri Dew's book, "God Wants A Powerful People" p. 56 "The question , then, is this How much power do we want to have, and what are we willing to do to obtain it? Heber C. Kimball said that 'the greatest torment [the Prophet Joseph] had... was because this people would not live up to their [spiritual] privileges. ...He said sometimes that he felt pressed upon as though he were pent up in an acorn shell, and all because the people did not and would not prepare themselves to recieve the rich treasures of wisdom an knowledge that he had to impart. He could have revealed a great many things to us if we had been ready.' " (Journal of Discourses 10:167)

What would happen in our lives if we lived up to our spiritual privileges and burst open the acorn shell, so to speak? What could the Prophet teach us if we would make ourselves ready? I want those blessings!