Throughout time, people have portrayed heaven as a paradise resting on top of a cloud, where angels play harps and sit around, being fanned while eating grapes.
Let me express how much I would dread death of that was the heaven I was going to.
In this lifetime, many people struggle to get by while working full time, only to lose their pay checks instantly to the needs of rent, groceries, family needs, and a college education. Working is hard, seems never ending, and causes depression, can cause serious injuries, and can destroy families.
But working is what we were made to do.
In Richard G.Scott's talk, "For Peace at Home", he states "In the premortal life you proved to be valiant, obedient, and pure. There you worked hard to develop talents and capacities to prepare yourselves to face mortality with courage, dignity, honor, and success."
In our past life, we worked. In our current life we must work to support our families, to spread the gospel, and we serve to spread Heavenly Father's love. In our future life, we are to work to bring people to Heavenly Father's kingdom and to have our own worlds.
We are made to work.
Think about it; we have two arms filled with muscles that are able to lift heavy loads, we have two legs that can support our weight and help us move around. We are built "in the image of our Heavenly Father" so that we can work.
So what does that mean for us? I didn't write this to promote capitalism or whine about people who can't seem to do anything with their life after high school or college, but I did it to motivate myself. If I'm supposed to always work, what do I need to do to prepare now? I, personally, need to become healthier, always share the gospel, and always work.
Never ask to help. Just work.
