Opposition in All Things

I have come to appreciate the fact that there is resistance in every breath and in every movement as we push and pull against the law of gravity, and also against less subtle laws that push and pull our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
The Lord calls this general concept of resistance the Law of Opposition.  We face it every day – it is in all things.  By successfully mastering the Law of Opposition we grow, progress, and receive more and more power to govern our lives.  When we are unsuccessful, we regress and lose power to govern our lives.
This week’s meditative verse reflects upon the Law of Opposition and its affect upon our lives.

Opposition in All Things

 

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

2 Nephi 2:11

 

For it must needs be

An opposition in all things

Within this doctrine is found the key

From which choice and accountability springs

 

Not much would come to fruition

Neither life nor death, neither good nor bad

If we had neither agency nor opposition

There’d be no reason to be happy or sad

 

As we make our daily choices

About what to believe and how to act

We hear whispered and subtle voices

That discourage, divert and distract

 

How do we deal with opposition

When it rises and blocks our way

Does it stifle our drive and ambition

Or prompt us to seize the day

 

Opposition, conflict and resistance

Are fundamental to the Agentive Plan

 For with our persistence and God’s assistance

We can finish the work that Adam and Eve began

 

Larry Doyle Crenshaw