If We Make the Wrong Choice We Have No One To Blame But Ourselves

 Brethren, whether we are 12-year-old deacons or mature high priests, we are susceptible....

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves. President Brigham Young once expressed this truth by relating it to himself. Said he: “If Brother Brigham shall take a wrong track, and be shut out of the Kingdom of heaven, no person will be to blame but Brother Brigham. I am the only being in heaven, earth, or hell, that can be blamed.” He continued: “This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.”8

Thomas S. Monson, “The Three Rs of Choice,” Ensign, Nov 2010, 67–70