God is the source and fulfillment of all good. Everything positive comes from and leads to God, and the concentration of its value increases the closer to him it is. Every positive experience and outcome flows from God through a conduit whose bandwidth is determined by how well aligned you are with God. God’s blessings come through righteousness, and those who seek to find greater outcomes through anything but learning more about and becoming more like him will be sorely disappointed.1 It is impossible to describe anything more important than opening the aperture of the flow between you and God, as everything you accomplish, the strength and endurance with which you labor towards it, the joy you have during and after, and every other significant or meaningful thing will be determined by how aligned you are with God.
The conduit from God to you has several critical components, each of which requires tuning in order to maximize the quantity, quality, and longevity of blessings from him to you:
- The source
- The destination
- The bandwidth
- The distance
As you perfect each of these components, you will maximize the blessings that you receive from God.
Footnotes
- 1. That they may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man. (D&C 121:37) ↩