Agency for all

It seems that moral Agency is something the Lord really wants us to believe and understand. This week, I have learned how to consider agency from multiple perspectives to the point of reading and hearing language that sounds redundant, yet true. To me there is no question of moral agency, for we have far more power to direct our thoughts, feelings, and desires of the heart than we have exercised. The truth of the matter is that we can all be pure and wholesome, for what power over ourselves we do not have, we may have by faith, prayer and fasting.

The main reason that comes to my mind that we do not exercise our agency as a people, that is to act rather than be acted upon, is that we are told and find it convenient to believe that certain aspects of ourselves are guided or controlled by forces that we have to choice to determine, such as who we fall in love with, and what hobbies or passions will overcome us, or whether we can stay away from some activity or behavioral addiction that seems to often beset us.  We think that because we do not understand these forces well, we are forced to follow the direction they lead.  This is a distortion of the mind, for we make the choice in the very same part of our mind that is capable of having joy in our good works.  When we direct ourselves to do good, seeking the satisfaction of bringing righteousness and joy to our lives and to present our Heavenly Father with, we have power to make choices that would contradict the natural man or the natural wiles of supposed fate.

2 Nephi 4:19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.

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