The Lord often has you make hard decisions. Oftentimes he has you experience hardship and misery. Sometimes he even puts you at risk. This must be done, for without misery, there could be no joy. Without trial, there can be no strength. Without hardship, there could be no endurance, - lasting endurance, for as the Savior, Jesus Christ, suffered for the world, so would he have been put in such extreme danger if He were to break the commandments.

Go forth, have exceeding faith, and press forward.

I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

(God always gives us our free agency.)