Like many individuals in the world, I have been caught up lately with the World Cup. I like soccer growing up, and serving my mission in Spain gave me a whole new appreciation of the game and just how popular it is. While it has been fun to watch the teams from various parts of the world, I obviously followed the U.S. side closely during their run. One of the most difficult things to watch, however, was how they would fall behind early, giving up goals within the first 15 minutes in 3 of the 4 matches they played. In their elimination round game on Saturday they fell behind early, fought back to tie it, then fell behind again quickly in overtime, and in the end they ran out of time and opportunities and failed to advance.
This is the same with life. Everything that we face here is of a temporal nature, and sooner or later our time here will end. Amulek said it best when he said:
"For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors... therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.
"Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world." (Alma 34:32-34)
I hope that we will take advantage of our time here and do all we can today so that when our time is up we can gain the prize that awaits us.
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