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God just wants us to be happy

Technically, since we have free agency, we could live perfectly. We, technically, could choose all the right things and choose to not lose our patience and be kind and serve everyone and judge no one.  The problem is that we don’t, from the start of each day, know everything that is right.  Maybe we feel justified at the time for being disdainful towards someone, but then at the end of the day we are praying and the spirit prompts us to change our hearts and desires and realize we made a mistake and ask God to pardon our misstep.  Learning.  Experience.  Growth.  These things are why God does not ask us to be perfect. They are why He doesn’t ask us to get every principle of the Gospel exactly right, today. Because He knows our capabilities, that we wouldn’t always have knowledge of the right thing to do on the first, second, or third try, and that even if we did, we wouldn’t always choose it.  Instead, all He asks is that we try to learn a little more, act a little more obediently on t