REMEMBER to BECOME: The point of life

For those who don't know me, I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Or we are also known as the Mormons. We believe in modern-day revelation. During the 1800s, our prophet Joseph Smith received many revelations from God. The revelations he received have been compiled into a book called the Doctrine & Covenants.

Doctrine & Covenants 43:34 reads, "let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds."

"Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." To me this says to REMEMBER where this life will lead us. Which leads me to a question I have thought about quite a bit. What is the meaning of our daily activities? Really. What is the point of them? To me, it seems that people heavily place value on being busy. Busy with jobs, promotions, sports, trips/vacation, shopping, spending money, becoming a celebrity, being up-to-date on the latest trends, movies, news, updating friends about their lives through blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snap Chat, and doing things that just eat up their time - just to take up time. Looking at it that way, none of those things seem important, but rather wasteful. Don't get me wrong, some of those things are good and/or are necessary. But I think sometimes we forget the true meaning of life and how it should affect our daily activities. We need to REMEMBER to look at the whole grand scheme of things and the true meaning of life.

According to my beliefs, I believe the purpose of this life is "to prepare to meet God" by BECOMING the individual I have the potential to become. We all have great potential to be someone awesome. We can rise and achieve that potential by becoming a Christ-like person. A Christ-like person has attributes, such as patience, temperance, love, charity, hope, faith, honesty, virtue, knowledge, humility, diligence, and obedience to God's commandments. So instead of being busy just to eat up time, we can do those activities, with the mindset of using our activities to help ourselves build and BECOME a Christ-like person. If we focus on obtaining those attributes through our daily activities, we will be hitting the bull's eye for the point of life. We will BECOME our potential selves as the sons and daughters of God we are.

Moral of this message: BECOMING a Christ-like person is the point of life. This is what is really important. Not only to me. But also to God.