✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — ✨ “Endure to the End” #10
✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 10✨
“Endure to the End”
📝 Their Message (Summary)
She sat in the sealing room of the temple, waiting for more people so the work could begin. Two temple workers struck up a cheerful conversation — comparing their matching gold watches, gifts for decades of teaching in the Church Educational System. Between them was a lifetime of gospel instruction.
So she asked the question that weighed most heavily on her soul:
“How do I know if I will inherit eternal life?”
Their answer was quick and unanimous:
“Be faithful, be a good member of the Church, endure to the end — and you will inherit eternal life.”
But her heart sank. What does that even mean? she wondered. I’m trying. I’m “enduring.” But how do I know if my life is truly pleasing to the Lord? Do I just wait until I die to find out? That feels like living with my fingers crossed — hoping, but never knowing.
Joseph Smith once said:
“This is life eternal: to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. If any man does not know God…he has not eternal life.” (TPJS 343–344)
That is the key: eternal life is not guessing — it is knowing God.
The scriptures confirm it again and again:
“Every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh unto me…shall see my face and know that I am.” (D&C 93:1)
“Seek the face of the Lord always…and ye shall have eternal life.” (D&C 101:38)
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the END.” (3 Nephi 9:18)
Enduring to the end does not mean waiting passively. It means seeking Christ until He reveals Himself. Jesus Christ is the End.
🔥 My Reflection
This teaching is piercing. How often have I taken comfort in the vague idea of “enduring,” when the scriptures make the path so plain? Eternal life is not about checking boxes until death. It is about seeking Christ in this life until He makes Himself known.
The Spirit promises the mysteries of God to those who keep His commandments (D&C 6:7; 63:23). The greater priesthood itself holds “the key of the knowledge of God” (D&C 84:19). The temple is not primarily about “work for the dead,” but about learning the ordinances — the order, the process — that leads to beholding the face of God.
The Lectures on Faith put it bluntly: salvation requires the sacrifice of all earthly things. Not just 10%, not just selective obedience, but consecration in full. When a man or woman has truly given all, the Lord accepts the offering and reveals Himself.
And so the lesson rings clear:
Jesus Christ is the Mystery.
Jesus Christ is the Mark.
Jesus Christ is the End.
🕊️ The Invitation
Are you enduring with crossed fingers, or are you enduring to Him?
The invitation is not to wait until judgment day, but to seek His face now. Consecrate all. Obey every word He speaks. Do not stop at the preparatory gospel. Press into the fulness until He accepts your sacrifice and reveals His smile.
To endure to the End means to endure to Jesus Christ Himself.
🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This post is part of an ongoing series sharing the six-year testimony of a family who walks closer with the Savior than anyone I know. Read their words, feel the Spirit, and let Jesus meet you where you are.
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