Satan's First Commandment

Meghan Decker, Meridian Magazine 22 Oct 2019

We know which of the Lord’s commandment of greatest importance: to love the Lord our God with our whole heart and mind and soul. But what is Satan’s first commandment? It is to hide. When we feel we have made a mistake, when we fear we have offended God, the adversary is quick to encourage us to turn away in shame. He wants us to separate ourselves from God and isolate ourselves from others. God unites. Satan divides. God creates. Satan destroys. Knowing that, why is it so hard to defy that seductive, insidious voice that urges us to run away?

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Shame disconnects us from others, the very opposite of God’s desire. He asks us to join a community of believers, to covenant to bear one another’s burdens, and to share our emotional and physical resources with one another (e.g., Mosiah 18:8, Luke 3:11). He invites us to turn to Him and unite with others, until at last we are all united as one. In opposition, Satan wants to pull us away from each another through feelings of unworthiness. Elder Neal A. Maxwell taught that “He who was thrust down in the first estate delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan; there is none of it in heaven” (“Notwithstanding My Weakness,” Oct 1976).

Atonement - Unity

Understanding the Atonement through the Unity of the Godhead
By Craig R. Frogley - Meridian Magazine 21 Oct 2019

...Without desiring to enthrone “tolerance-at-any-cost,”  and remembering that Zion’s unities for us, personally, in our family, socially, and even nationally, include one heart, one mind, one standard of righteousness, and one economy,[vii] it must be said that sometimes we are so concerned about being right that we forget that being one is as important, and in fact, the means to at-one-ment’s eternal end.

Satan's Plan is not what You Think - Agency

Mark A. Mathews - Meridian Magazine 10 Oct 2019