In a recent video on social media, Elder D. Todd Christofferson said he’d been thinking about “the precious gift of repentance” offered by Jesus Christ.
He said he hears from time to time the phrase: “It’s never too late to repent.”
“I would say it’s more accurate to say, ‘It’s not too late to repent,’” Elder Christofferson said. “The scriptures tell us that it could be too late, or it can become too late.”
He added that the scriptures also tell us not to procrastinate. Then he quoted Doctrine and Covenants 45:2: “Lest … in an hour when ye think not the summer shall be past, and the harvest ended, and your souls not saved.”
“I think everyone who’s hearing this message, for any of us, it’s not too late. But let’s not procrastinate, because someday it could be too late,” Elder Christofferson said. “I think this is what President Nelson has in mind when he talks about daily repentance. Not that we keep repenting of the same thing over and over again, but that we make these corrections, usually small course corrections, each day as we seek to grow in our discipleship. I say again, what a precious gift is repentance.”
Watch the full video below.
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