This time of year in the life of a basketball fanatic is all about the NBA Conference Finals getting to the NBA Finals. Two teams...seven games...One champion. To me, it doesn't get much better than this. One of my favorite of these recent NBA Finals is the 2008 Finals featuring the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. Boston won the first two games fairly easily on their homecourt by scores of 98-88 and 108-102. Game 3 in Los Angeles was a different story as Kobe Bryant scored 30 points in a 87-81 Laker victory. Game 4 started out all Lakers as well as they led at one point by as much as 24...but the game didn't end up that way.
Although most of us won't ever get to play in a NBA Finals game, we are all searching for the ultimate prize. What might that prize be? The Lord Himself tells us: "And, if you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God." (Doctrine and Covenants 14:7) We as the children of God are all on the same team. We are trying to win the ultimate prize of being with our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ. The Devil is trying to stop us from attaining this prize. We can beat him if we do what the Savior said...by keeping His commandments and enduring to the end. When we do that, we will defeat the enemy of all righteousness and hear our Savior say: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." (Matthew 25:21) We can do it. We will do it, if we do what the Lord asks us to do.
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