Making Covenants with God | Henry B. Eyring | September 1996

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God provided a savior and a gospel that teaches us life's purpose, and He provided covenants to make with Him—with ordinances to signify them. Click here to see the speech page.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the classic speeches podcast presented by BYU Speeches, bringing you treasured talks from 70 years of BYU Devotionals.
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0:22.1	This devotional address entitled Making Covenants with God was given on September 8th of
0:28.1	1996 by Henry B. Iring. Then a member of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church
0:34.3	of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:44.1	All of us can remember times in our lives when we felt a pull to be better than we were,
0:50.6	to rise higher. The feeling may have come at about the same time we had the thought.
0:55.0	There must be something better in life than this. Sadly, there are also times when we felt like giving up.
0:59.0	And then the thought was something like this.
1:02.0	Maybe this feeling of being miserable is what life is really like.
1:05.0	Maybe I need to learn to live with it.
1:08.0	It looks as if that's how everyone else feels. Those movies about feeling good and those
1:13.0	people who look happy, they must have bought into an illusion. There was even a T-shirt made with
1:19.7	a slogan on the front that I think said something like, life is hard and then it's over.
1:33.3	And I remember the look on the man's face wearing it made it seem like he was living proof. But everyone that I have come to know well, even the most discouraged and the most miserable, will tell you that sometime in their
1:46.5	lives, maybe just once, they felt that upward pull, that thought that there just had to be
1:54.5	something better and higher. The feeling that, perhaps in some way you haven't yet discovered, you are meant to be better,
2:03.6	comes from our Heavenly Father.
2:06.6	The opposing thought that the upward pull is an illusion comes from the adversary who wants us all to be miserable as he is. Now, Heavenly Father does more than allow you to
2:22.0	feel that upward pull. He is provided a way to rise higher, almost beyond our limits of imagination,
2:30.3	not by our powers alone, which would not be nearly enough, but through the power of the
2:38.0	atonement of His Son, Jesus Christ.
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