It is the privilege of the Saints to enjoy every good thing, for the
earth and its fulness belong to the Lord, and he has promised all
to his faithful Saints; but it must be enjoyed without spirit of
covetousness and selfishness--without the spirit of lust, and in the
spirit of the Gospel; then the sun will shine sweetly upon us; each day
will be filled with delight, and all things will be filled with beauty,
giving joy, pleasure, and rest to the Saints. 8:82.
We are to learn how to enjoy the things of life--how to pass our mortal
existence here. There is no enjoyment, no comfort, no pleasure, nothing
that the human heart can imagine, with all the spirit of revelation
we can get, that tends to beautify, happify, make comfortable and
peaceful, and exalt the feelings of mortals, but what the Lord has in
store for his people. He never objected to their taking comfort. He
never revealed any doctrine, that I have any knowledge of, but what in
its nature is calculated to fill with peace and glory, and lift every
sentiment and impulse of the heart above every low, sad, deathly, false
and grovelling feeling. The Lord wishes us to live that we may enjoy
the fulness of the glory that pertains to the upper world, and bid
farewell to all that gloomy, dark, deathly feeling that is spread over
the inhabitants of the earth. 8:128-129.
Our organism makes us capable of exquisite enjoyment. Do I not love my
wife, my son, my daughter, my brother, my sister, my father, and my
mother? And do I not love to associate with my friends? I do, and love
to reflect and talk on eternal principles. 7:138.
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