193: Satan Wants You to Waste Your Time
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🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The theme of distraction keeps popping up for me, and specifically how distraction can keep us from doing the most important things. So today we’re talking about some of the ways to combat this, how to identify it in your life, and where you’ll find the best solution that’s exactly meant for you.
Time Stamps:
[00:24] - Corrine explains why “distraction” is this episode’s theme. It started with reading a book.
[03:23] - Satan wants you to waste your time.
[05:54] - Corrine keeps feeling nudges about writing a book. How does she plan to pursue it?
[08:20] - Neil says this lesson did not leave his mind when thinking of how people spend time.
[11:20] - “Favorable conditions never come.”
[13:29] - There’s a difference between “people who surf” and surfers.
[15:41] - God will bring the miracles you need.
[18:20] - Sometimes there does need to be a sacrifice or a trade off. The situation depends on how you prioritize your efforts.
[19:50] - Neil thinks about how faith and personal agency relates to opportunities.
[21:58] - When the distractions are drowning out the true purpose, it’s time to simplify your plan.
[24:28] - Corrine reminds everyone to not get distracted by an obsession with accomplishment. You still need to live a full life.
[27:23] - Why is it so easy to waste time?
[29:27] - How can your identity be a distraction?
[32:16] - Corrine explores legacy and how people live out their purpose on Earth.
[34:49] - You don’t need to use your time perfectly, but small adjustments can help you use it more effectively.
[37:14] - Corrine and Neil refocus on the core reason Satan wants you.
[39:27] - If you’re not sure what to do with your time, ask Heavenly Father.
Supporting Resources:
“The Infinite Atonement” Book by Tad R. Callister
“Becoming Exemplary Latter-day Saints” Talk by Russell M. Nelson
“Of Things That Matter Most” Talk by Dieter F Uchtdorf
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| 0:00.0 | The theme of distraction keeps popping up from me and specifically how distraction can keep us from |
| 0:06.0 | doing the most important things. So today we're talking about some of the ways to combat this, |
| 0:11.7 | how to identify it in your life, and where you'll find the best solution that's exactly meant for you. |
| 0:24.1 | So today we're going to talk about something that has come up for me at least three times |
| 0:29.6 | in the last week. |
| 0:30.6 | And I always know that God's trying to tell me something when it comes up more than once, |
| 0:35.0 | but especially three times. |
| 0:36.9 | So about a week ago, I was reading a book |
| 0:40.0 | that I've wanted to read for years called The Infinite Atonement by Tatar Ocalister. |
| 0:45.1 | I actually heard about this book first when my brother Jake was on his mission, gosh, like five-ish |
| 0:52.5 | years ago. And I remember him writing me more than once on his mission and saying, Corrani, please read this book. Like, he begged me to read it. And I was like, yeah, yeah, I'll get to it. I'll read it. I'll read it. I'll read it. I think I even promised him at one point that I would read it before he got home. And I never did. Have you read this book, by the way? I'm not. Not yet. Okay. I need to. Yeah, that's excellent. |
| 1:14.5 | But I was did. Have you read this book, by the way? I'm not. Not yet. Okay. I need to. Yeah, it's excellent. But I was reading just one of the first couple chapters, and this part really popped out to me. In fact, |
| 1:21.1 | right when you got home that day, I was like, oh my gosh, I have to tell you about something that I read |
| 1:24.4 | because it was super interesting and I had never thought of it |
| 1:28.0 | this way. So Hugh Nibbley says, so cool has been the reception of the message of the |
| 1:34.5 | atonement that through the centuries while heated controversy and debate have raged over |
| 1:39.6 | evolution, atheism, the sacraments, the Trinity, authority, predestination, faith, and works, |
| 1:45.8 | and so on, there has been no argument or discussion at all about the meaning of the |
| 1:50.1 | Atonement. Why were there no debates or pronouncements on the synods? I don't know what that |
| 1:57.4 | word is. People either do not care enough or do not know enough even to argue |
| 2:02.8 | about it. For the doctrine of the atonement is far too complicated to have the appeal of a world |
| 2:08.3 | religion. So my take on that was, oh, this is so interesting that Satan has gotten people to |
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