KEY PRINCIPLE: Humbly ask Heavenly Father
to remove your shortcomings.
All the steps require humility, but step 7 requires
it most explicitly:
Step 7 marked for each of us the moment when we
finally yielded without reservation to the eternal truth
taught in Mosiah 16:4: “All mankind were lost; and
behold, they would have been endlessly lost were it
not that God redeemed his people from their lost and
fallen state.” Our experience taught us that in taking
step 7 we were not excused from the work that was
ours to do. We still had to be patient and “press forward
with a steadfastness in Christ” (2 Nephi 31:20).
We had not become entirely free from the desire to
sin. We had to learn to accept life on God’s terms and
wait upon His purposes and His timing—even in the
removal of our shortcomings. In taking step 7, we
learned to live with the same humility and patience
toward God that Alma and his brethren showed when
their burdens were lightened but not removed: “They
did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will
of the Lord” (Mosiah 24:15). We finally abandoned the
idea that we could become perfect by ourselves, and
we accepted the truth that God desires us to conquer
our weaknesses in this life by coming to Christ and
being perfected in Him. We found that by His grace,
He enabled us to deny ourselves of all ungodliness and
to understand that salvation comes not by our own
power but by His (see Moroni 10:32)
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