Do you know what “entice” means?

It means to persuade someone to do something.

King Benjamin taught:

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.” (Mosiah 3:19)

So King Benjamin is saying that the Holy Ghost is trying to persuade us to do good things.

The Spirit is trying to entice us to be helpful and kind and loving.

Can you think of a time you’ve been persuaded or enticed to do something good this past week?

Did you follow through on it?

Because someone else is trying to persuade us to do things that aren’t good.

Satan uses persuasion and enticement to make his way seem more pleasing.

He tries to convince us that his way is much less work.

We know that the more we give into temptations over and over, our desires start to change and then it becomes even easier to sin more in the future.

But this is the same thing with the Holy Spirit, too!

The more that we “give in” to the Spirit’s enticings, the easier and easier it becomes to follow promptings in the future.

Our desires start to change as we yield to these persuasions, and it becomes natural to become more Christlike each day.

“Each time you seek for and follow the promptings of the Spirit, each time you do anything good—things that “the natural man” would not do—you are overcoming the world.” – Russell M. Nelson

Happy Studying!

-Cali Black

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