Determination

Ok, So...yesterday we were in the chapel to make some copies of papers, when the library door WOULD NOT OPEN! I unlocked and locked and pushed and pushed, but it would barely budge for about 20 minutes. I really thought I was going to break the door. When finally, IT OPENED! We looked around trying to find the cause of the unmoveable door, but nothing was to be found. Point of the story is: I was DETERMINED. I put in my mind that the door was going to open, that we were going to do what we needed to do, it took time, it took muscle, it took effort, but most of all it was really was determination that I had that opened the door.
So how does this relate to the Gospel or to our lives? Well....it actually has quite a lot to do with the gospel, and with our lives.
#1 When we lived in heaven before this life we made a promise to Heavenly Father that we were going to do all we could do to live with him again. We were DETERMINED to live with him again. So we came to earth, forgot everything, but thankfully Heavenly Father gave us something to help us, called the Holy Ghost, it's a guide, it's an influence, but it's only constant if we are obedient to God's commandments. We have to be DETERMINED to be obedient to the commandments or we can't have the Gift of the Holy Ghost. And we have to be DETERMINED to live with him again in this life so that we can have to "doors" of Heaven opened in the end to us.
#2 Obstacles, this was my main point of this blog. We all have obstacles, we all get these "stuck doors that won't open for anything" in our lives. But what would happen if we just gave up? thought it was too hard, the door Won't open, if we don't try. If we are not DETERMINED to overcome the obstacles, to gain the blessings aka the paper copies, or just the door opening, we won't get them. So if you think about it our DETERMINATION is what will influence our actions, which will influence how we live and the blessings we get, we gain them.