Is My Life In Order?

Each Latter-day Saint needs to ask himself or herself the questions:

• Is my life in order?
• Do I have all of the ordinances of the gospel that I should possess by this time in my life?
• Are they valid?

If you can answer these questions affirmatively, and if the ordinances come under the influence of the sealing power and authority, they will remain intact eternally. In that case your life, to this point is in proper order. (Pres. Boyd K. Packer, “Come to the Temple,” Ensign, Oct 2007, 18-22)

Our life's work is to KEEP our life in order, that is the hard part. Elder Packer says, "Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality." (Elder Boyd K. Packer, “Covenants,” Ensign, May 1987) 

How important?

President Packer confirms just how important participating in these saving gospel ordinances really is when he posed these questions: How important are they to us as members of the Church? Can you be
happy, can you be redeemed, can you be exalted without them?

Answer: They are more than advisable or desirable, or even than necessary. More even than essential or vital, they are crucial to each of us.

"Picture yourself on one side of a stream, and on the other side is your eternal happiness. You need to have some stepping-stones in your life to get across. For example, choose to go on a mission, to be married in the temple, and to have a family. As you prepare for each of these events, you will be on track to reaching your ultimate goal." Elder Won Yon Ko