7 And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the achildren of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are bchanged through faith on his name; therefore, ye are cborn of him and have become his dsons and his daughters.
This change of heart spoken of by King Benjamin in the book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon is something that can actually happen. Acting in faith can be hard, but if you stick with it, you begin to see the benefits and want to continue in the path. This is the change of heart. Changing from rebellion to tentative submission to proactive involvement. Once you reach this last stage, certain things become easier, you look forward to staying the course and actively plan to proceed down the course in the future. The desires of your heart have changed. So often this only comes after a long time of acting in faith, without seeing much result or at least the result you want to see. But once you have developed good habits and dedication to the path, you begin to see all the different ways staying the course makes you better, your life better, everything better. You don't want to lose that so you have encouragement to carry on and to keep growing in this direction. You want to reach further down this road and see what else you can become and how else you can develop, what else you can do. You can see how believing God and following Him is really allowing Him to love you and help you to be the happiest you can. He really does want us to be happy. For that I am very grateful and humbled.
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