Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!

The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like “childbirth fever” claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!

The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.