I love looking up the meaning of a word when I want to understand something. I thought it was important to focus on the word "law" as part of this series, because it is a very important word. Without laws our world would be chaos. I thought it was cool in the dictionary when it said, "any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation." Yes, we need positive rules to govern our lives. The Law of Attraction is definitely a set of positive rules!
The dictionary also said that a law is "the controlling influence of such rules"....with the law of attraction it is sending out positive thoughts and feelings in order to attract them back to you. (whereas the opposite also applies that we attract negative back to us if that is what we are sending out.)
It also said a law was "a rule or principle of proper conduct sanctioned by conscience," and "a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc." These principles have been instilled in each of us as the light of Christ. Everyone knows good from evil and the consequences that follow our choices.
And last but not least, "a commandment or revelation from God." It even put "the law" in bold print for one definition and refers you to the law of Moses.
But the point I wanted to make, the thing that matters the most to me in contemplating any definition of "law" is that Jesus Christ is "the law"...THE law. We need Him. We need His law. Without His law there is no way. And we need a way, THE way, back home. He is the way.
"He offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law...unto none else can the ends of the law be answered." 2 Nephi 2:7
For, "there is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated---And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated." Doctrine and Covenants 130:20-21
All things center in Christ. That is why the law of attraction works so well. We who choose to live the gospel work our lives to gain Christlike virtues because we want to see His image reflected in our countenances. Is that not the law of attraction? As we live those virtues: faith, patience, hope, charity, meekness, humility, long-suffering, mercy, goodness, service and so on....are we not sending out the positive which will be reflected back to us? I see it. I feel it in my life when I live it.
The Atonement helps me to hold the ground I might otherwise have lost.
The book, The Secret, implies that these things, these laws and principles have been hidden for centuries, and that people did not want to unlock or share the power that was contained within them. But all these laws and principles come from God. God would never hide them from His children. The only way they would become "hidden" is through the disobedience to His laws. But no more. God has once again sent His light to the earth.
"The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law." Deuteronomy 29:29 How sweet of a scripture and promise is that??!!
God will reveal all that we need to know. He does this in great wisdom and mercy. He gives to us as we are ready and able to live His laws. His laws are joyous unto us. And, He sent us His Son to convey and to fulfill His Law.
I'm so thankful that Jesus Christ is that law. I'm so thankful he is The Way.
No suffering lies beyond His power to redeem, no sorrow that cannot be turned into joy!
There's no place to go but up!
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