Spam, Encouragement, & Repentance

I found a comment today to a post that had been tagged as spam.  But it wasn’t spam.  It was a beautiful comment that inspired me.  So I deleted the spam and posted the good comment. (see the comment here)

The influences around us are a lot like that.  We are surrounded by that which is bad or worldly.  We need to quickly delete those bad influences and protect ourselves from them.  We also need to hold fast to the good. 

Taken from another angle, I didn’t notice that good comment until months after it was posted.  I don’t know now when the truely spam messages were left because I already deleted them.  Those spam messages, or at least one of them, could have been sitting in the spam box for months too.

Each of us has been given the Spirit of Christ, or a conscience, that allows us to know good from evil.  We need to examine our lives, like I looked at the spam box, to see what is good or bad.  If there is bad in our lives, we should repent immediately.  Christ’s atonement can then delete the bad stuff and make us clean.  Where there is good in our lives, we should give thanks to Him from whom all goodness flows.