God's Will For You

Ether 1:41-42 teaches a very important lesson. In this God is telling the brother of Jared to gather all the animals and his family and friends, to go north, and He will meet them there. This shows that we need to follow God's plan for us because our endpoint isn't necessarily God's endpoint for us. He will give us instruction because He knows exactly where we should go. It is often so easy to make plans for our life and think we know exactly what we're doing. We know what we want concerning our education, career, family, etc. It's important to remember that we don't know everything. When we make decisions we need to go to the Lord and make sure that we are aligned with His will. God has so much more to offer us than we could ever imagine. If we only rely on ourselves we will never reach our full potential. Even though we might not always go in the direction we originally thought we would, when we are with the Lord, we will go in the direction that will be best for us, the direction that will lead to us becoming all that we can be. Gordon B. Hinckley once said "I believe that God has likewise chosen each of you for something of consequence in his grand design" and the General Young Women Presidency said "Our Heavenly Father...knows you. He has confidence and faith that you will use these years...in being an obedient child of God who can be molded and shaped for the special mission and destiny he would have you fill." God knows what we can be and if we go to Him we will go places and become someone greater than we ever thought possible.