Sometimes We Must Decide

Sometimes we just want an answer to one of our most difficult and perplexing questions in life--What school should I attend? Who should I marry? What career path should I choose? Which friends should I have? And surprisingly, a lot of these questions can be solved once we come up with an answer and ask Heavenly Father in mighty prayer. With many decisions, He would be pleased with any number of outcomes. Either way, we will feel at peace and be comforted if this is the correct decision. We must first choose a path for ourselves, and then by faith we may receive a witness to what is right.

Elder Boyd K. Packer said, "We have all been taught that revelation is available to each of us individually. The question I'm most often asked about revelation is, 'How do I know when I have received it? I've prayed about it and fasted over this problem and prayed about it and prayed about it, and I still don't quite know what to do. How can I really tell whether I'm being inspired so I won't make a mistake?'

First, do you go to the Lord with a problem and ask Him to make your decision for you? Or do you work, read the revelations, and meditate and pray and then make a decision yourself? Measure the problem against what you know be right and wrong, and then make the decision. Then ask Him if the decision is right or if it is wrong. Remember what He said to Oliver Cowdery about working it out in your mind." (Ensign, Nov. 1979)

In many things, as long as we are striving to do our best and keeping the Spirit with us we can do just what we want.