Forsaking the Natural Man
King Benjamin explained that “men drink damnation to their own souls except they humble themselves and become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent. “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father” (Mosiah 3:18–19).
1. How do we form our own personal identity while at the same time trying to forsake the natural man?
-There often appears to be a cookie cutter mold that we beat ourselves up for not fitting into.
2. How do we have hope in God's plan, while at times the world's seems to make more sense?
3. How do we successfully avoid negative influences, and draw closer to God instead?
