You're on probation!

I want to share some of the things I've learned about repentence and forgiveness lately.  But first, in this post, I want to set the stage for it.

First of all, personally, what I love about the Book of Mormon, is that it explains that there really is a purpose to our lives here on earth, and we are not simply here just to be born, live, get an education, work, have children, etc. and then die.  This life has purpose and it has meaning.  In the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon, Amulek taught "And thus we see, that there was a time granted unto man to repent, yea, a probationary time, a time to repent and serve God." (Alma 42:4; see also Alma 34:32 and 2 Nephi 2:21)

Basically what that means is that God granted us this time in mortal life as a time to repent so that we can be prepared to live in His presence after this life. So if the biggest purpose of this mortal life is to repent, then don't you think that it is probably pretty important to know first of all what repentance is, and then how to repent?  I would think so.  I'll write more about the "what" and "how" of repentance in my next posts.  Stay tuned!