Study Recap: You Are Free by Elder D. Todd Christofferson

Title: You Are Free
Author: Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Source: From a devotional address given at BYU on 19 October 1999
Overview: What God requires is the devotion portrayed by Jesus.
Link: https://www.lds.org/ensign/2013/03/you-are-free?lang=eng
Rating: 3.5/5

Below are the points that most stood out to me:

• But for your freedom to be complete, you must be willing to give away all your sins (see Alma 22:18), your willfulness, your cherished but unsound habits, perhaps even some good things that interfere with what God sees is essential for you.
• In the words of President Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.”
• Our choice in this life is not whether we will or will not be subject to any power. Our choice is to which authority we will yield obedience: God’s or Satan’s. As Lehi stated, it is a choice between liberty and captivity (see2 Nephi 2:27). If it is not one, it is necessarily the other.
• “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. …
  
  “Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest” (Joshua 1:5, 7).