Our Path of Duty

Some thoughts from Keith B. McMullin's talk entitled, "Our Path of Duty" from the April 2010 General Conference

President Thomas S. Monson said, "If we are to walk with head held high, we must make our contribution to life. If we are to fulfill our destiny and return to live with our Father in Heaven, we must keep His commandments and pattern our lives after the Savior. By so doing, we will not only achieve our goal of eternal life, but we will also leave the world richer and better than it would have been had we not lived and performed our duties."

Ecclesiastes 12:13 states, "Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."

What is duty? "Duty is what we are expected to do and to be. Duty does not require perfection, but it does require diligence. Doing one's duty is a manifestaion of one's faith. Life, intelligence, wisdom, judgement, power to reason, all are the gifts of God to the children of men. He gives us our physical strength as well as our mental powers... we should honor God with our intelligence, with our strength, with our understanding, with our wisdom, and with all the power that we possess. We should seek to do good in the world. This is our duty."

And a final note: "The message that God forgives has a condition: that we forgive those who have injured us."