Where are You in Your Climb to Exaltation?
Copyright © 2001
Before you ever act, you think about it and make decisions that will effect your life. You become what you think. Below are the thoughts those whose thinking are along the lines of Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial beings. The same number in each section is about the same content, just different thinking.
Where are your thoughts on each of theses concepts? Where will your thinking take you?
If your thoughts are not getting you where you want to be, change them!
Celestial Concepts I Keep
I keep all the big commandments and actively working to keep the smaller ones, repenting as needed, immediately.
I gladly give service to others, even when it is not convenient.
I am in control over most of my passions and seldom procrastinate what needs to be done.
I do Sabbath day type things all Sunday, keeping the Spirit with me all day.
I love going to church and attend consistently. I have read the lesson being presented and bring the Spirit with me so I will know what I can contribute.
In the morning I pray and formally thank the Lord for a good night’s rest and for His protection. I ask Him for what others and I need to get through the day. I invite the Lord to stay with me throughout my day. I work through my day step-by-step with the Lord, through an open–ended prayer. It’s like having a dialogue with a friend who is always with me. In the evening I take the time to go over the good and bad of the day. I thank Him for the good that has happened and ask Him to help me do better with my goals, tomorrow. We plan the events of tomorrow.
I do my best to always be honest with my fellow man. I never steal even a paper clip and I try to tell the truth without being brutal. When I can’t figure out how to do this, I ask for the Lord’s help! He always knows the right thing to say!
I know I will never be able to repay the Lord for all He has done for me so I am grateful to be able to give Him my tenth in tithing, a generous fast offering, and anything else He needs from me, like my time and talents.
I consistently read my scriptures daily. When I need an answer to a problem, I know I can find the answer in the scriptures.
I plan and do my church job well in advance. I pray for guidance so I know what is needed.
I never accept a job that makes me work on Sunday. It would take a real emergency to make me do so!
If I can’t say anything good about someone, I don’t say anything at all. I never gossip or listen to it.
I want to better myself so I continually choose goals to make me a better person - physically, morally, spiritually, and mentally. I plan out how I can obtain these goals through small doable steps and then I do them.
I watch movies with good ratings and good story lines. I listen to music with uplifting lyrics and read good materials. I never choose to look at pornography.
I seldom use bad language, and if I do I quickly repent of it and ask forgiveness from God and others who may have heard it. I strategize ways to say and do things in advance so I will not use bad language. I try to get out of situations where others are using bad language. I ask the Lord help me not to use the bad language that is so prevalent in our world.
I seldom loose my temper. Instead, I choose to control it by leaving the room, praying for help, sing a good song in my mind, using deep breathing, counting to ten, and thinking things through before speaking.
I don’t take drugs, except prescription drugs that my doctor, the Lord, and I have decided will make me a healthier person.
I
actively work to do what the prophet asks me to
do.
Terrestrial Concepts I Keep
I try to keep most of the commandments, repenting when situations force me to.
I give service to others intermittently, but only when it is convenient or when forced to.
I am in control over several of my passions and often procrastinate what needs to be done.
On Sunday, I don’t go to the store and I attend church, but I watch worldly things on TV, listen to worldly music, and read worldly things the rest of the day.
I go to church, but seems like a chore to me. When I get there, I sometimes look for new things to learn and I sometimes actively seek the Spirit. I sometimes read the lesson being presented, but this doesn’t happen very often. After all, the teacher just tell me the same thing anyway.
I pray when I need help. Other times I do it when I remember to.
I am usually honest with my fellow man, but sometimes it is too hard. If I am charged less than I am supposed to be, I feel lucky. I tell the truth when it is easy and tell half-truths to get out of trouble. At work I usually do a good job. I do not mind talking or messing around on company time. I do as little as possible for my pay.
I paying tithing because it is a commandment of the Lord. I pay it when I can. I sometimes even pay fast offering, if it is convenient.
I read my scriptures intermittently or when I remember to look for there for answers to my problems. This does not occur very often though.
I usually do my church job, but I often procrastinate doing it until the night before or wait until the end of the month. I seldom pray for guidance, so I don't know what is needed.
I try to get a job that I don’t have to work on Sunday, but if I have to work, I have to work!
I may gossip every now and then, but it is not gossip if it is true, right? I listen to gossip so I know what’s going on.
I want to be a better person. I want to choose goals to make me a better person physically, morally, spiritually, and mentally. I sometimes make goals. I may start these but I seldom follow through on them. I seldom plan out how I can obtain them through small doable steps.
I watch some movies with bad ratings, but they all have a good story line. I try to overlook bad concepts or language. I also listen or read music or literature that may have bad concepts or language. Pornography is probably bad, and I usually do not engage. After all it is everywhere, how can you not see it?
I sometimes use bad language; but this is usually when I loose my temper.
I loose my temper about half of the time. It just seems to get away from me, before I know it.
I don’t take street drugs, but I sometimes I use prescription drugs which were prescribed for others.
I think about doing
what the prophet has asked me to do, and I want to, and I will some day.
I keep the commandments when it is convenient, but I refuse to put out the effort to repent.
I give little or not service to others. Service only occurs when I am forced into it.
I let my passions control me and usually procrastinate what needs to be done.
I work, go to the store, and participate in worldly things. Sunday is really like any other day.
I go to church only when I can’t get out of it. Church is so boring. I hate going., but sometimes it is a chore for me. I hear the same things over and over again. I never feel the Spirit and I never read the lesson being presented.
I hardly ever pray. I don’t think it really does any good. I’m not really sure there is a God. If there is one why would He care about me?
I am never honest with my fellow man. I tell the truth when it benefits me. I usually tell lies to get out of trouble and get me what I want. I shoplift and hide things in other things in hopes that I am not charged what I am supposed to be I take what I want because I deserve it. People who don’t take care of their things deserve to lose them! At work I do as little as possible for my pay.
Paying tithing and fast offerings is dumb. The Church is rich. Why should I give them more money?
I seldom if ever read the scripture. After all they're just stories.
If I accept a church job, I usually never do it. I just accepted it to get the bishopric off my back.
I work on Sunday, if that is what the job requires, but I like my weekends free to go camping and boating and other things.
I say what I want to about people. Cutting people down to size makes me feel better about me.
I sometimes think I could be smarter or healthier, but I don’t make time for these things.
I like to watch just about any movie with
a good story line no matter the rating. I like . music with a good beat
no matter the language or concept it espouses. I don’t think
pornography is bad. People today, are wearing almost nothing anyway,
what is the difference? It’s not like I haven’t seen it before.
I find that I use some bad language to
express myself each day. People have to know that I mean what I say! I
easily loose my temper and use bad language. Big deal! Everybody else
does!
I use street drugs and some prescription
drugs. I deserve a bright spot in my life!
I loose my temper when I get angry.
That’s what you do when your angry.
I don’t listen to what the prophet has to
say. He is just one more person telling me what to do.