Addicted forever

This was written to a little friend who I told, in remark to her telling me a little about her ‘sins’, "you will always be addicted to the pleasures of the flesh". To which she responded something like: ‘well that’s a little bit of a downer’.

And I suppose it is a little, but at the same time, it’s not.

We have bodies of flesh and blood, and these bodies have cravings built into them, and yes those craving when uncontrolled can lead to sin, even to great sin. But we are not to be down over this, as it is part of the creation for which these bodies were made. We are suppose to feel those craving, even that urge to procreate, and “replenish the earth”, or in other words populate it.

There are wise words that can be taken from such a horrible song as ‘the discovery channel song’ by The Bloodhound gang.

Yes ‘you and me baby, aint nothing but mammals’ , but that doesn’t mean we should just breed mindlessly like the other animals for we are commanded to “put off the natural man” (Mosiah 3:19). We can’t feel bad, and condemn ourselves for the natural feelings of our body. Yet Satan certainly likes to make us feel bad IF we do give in, doesn’t he? Yet Satan has been defeated, yes he’s still having a hay-day now, but over all is he already defeated. Christ took upon him ALL of our sins, He did so willingly, then also willingly, gave up His life and took it up again. God our Father, has already allowed Christ to take upon Him our sins, past, present, and future. God already knows what it is we are going to do, and He already knows what sins we may commit. There is no reason for us to listen to the devils as they play the ‘you are such a bad person’ song over and over in our heads. As long as we can swallow our pride, speak to a Bishops (or another ordained man in the church, authorized to accept our repentance), confess all we can remember, shake ourselves from the dust; loose ourselves from the bands of thy neck (Isaiah 52:2; 2Nephi 8:25; 3Nephi 20:37), and then endure to the end, relying on those merits of Christ to save us, we’re saved!

For it is aferall faith on and in Christ that we are saved, even after all we can do.