For Directions on How to Live Life

Where should we⎯or can we go for directions on how to live life? Perhaps we can draw a parallel. Where would we go for directions on how to use a machine, a car, or a complex piece of equipment? Who knows most about what things are made for, how they should be used and cared for, what they are designed to do? Obviously, the designer or maker of a machine would be the one most likely to prepare a manual of instructions pertaining to it.

And so likewise, in life, the Creator would know most about its purposes, about people, about their possibilities. The Maker would know why moderation, morality, labor, respect for law are essential for peace and health and happiness.

He has given us a marvelous mind, marvelous physical faculties, and has counseled us to do some things and not to do others. He has counseled us not to clutter our lives or consciences with unwholesome habits, or careless living, or unbecoming conduct. It is natural that it should be so. One cannot conceive of a parent’s not being interested in everything that pertains to his children: their physical, mental, moral and spiritual health, and happiness. And one cannot conceive of the Father of us all not being interested in everything that pertains to His children. And so He has given us standards, counsel, requirements, commandments, laws, rules of life to realize our highest possibilities, our highest happiness. Where else would we turn? Whom else could we trust with our everlasting lives? There are many brilliant men on earth but none who knows enough.

To those distressed, to those with problems, to those who are searching for answers that satisfy: look beyond the superficial, beyond the surface, beyond the shifting theories, the irresponsible permissiveness, the false assumptions. Look to the meaning and purpose and peace of life, and its limitless, everlasting possibilities. Turn to the Maker and Administrator of all things for the directions you so much seek.