Doing (3/24/2010)

"There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true,... it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint." -President Heber J. Grant

When I read President Grant's quote, it struck me as being simple yet deeply true. If one has matches and wood and tinder, it will never make a fire unless someone assembles the materials and strikes the match. Having a recipe, flour, sugar, and eggs will never make a cake unless I put the ingredients in the mixer and prepare the recipe as directed. The same can be said of the Gospel - as important as it is to have a testimony of Jesus Christ and His Gospel, the thing that will ultimately help us is to live as we have been taught.