Shoulder Angels and Agency

How many times do we have this kind of conversation with ourselves? We're thinking about doing something wrong, and we argue with ourselves whether we go ahead, do it, and justify it with ourselves, or we don't do it. In Kronk's case, he didn't do it in the end, but how many times do we listen to our miniature devil or carnal side of us?

 One of the purposes of this life is to "see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them." (Abraham 3:25) Obviously, this means that we have agency, or the ability to choose. If there's an ability to choose, there's a good and a bad. The prophet Lehi explained it best when he said that "it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility." (2 Nephi 2:11)

 Agency is part of God's plan. We must choose whether to follow God and His Son Jesus Christ, or to follow the devil. This choice is a very significant one, obviously, as it determines our eternal destiny. Let us choose to follow Jesus Christ by keeping His commandments. The Savior said that "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) Let's choose to follow the Example of God's Beloved Son. We will be blessed beyond belief if we do.