Free Agency

I am still on the Spiritual High from TOFW. I want all of my thoughts written down so I can remember them. So I figure my blog is the best spot.
Joseph Fielding McConkie gave a terrific talk on The Power God has Given Us. Our Free Agency. I learned a lot from it. Stuff I guess I hadn't really understood as well as I thought I had.
He said, "We have the capacity to do wrong, we do not have the God given right to do wrong. Agency is the right to do what is right."
What a powerful statement that is. It really impressed me.
I walked away with a better understanding of Free Agency, it helped that he used a NBA anaylsis. He explained that when a player signs a contract to play for a team, say the Utah Jazz, they are under contract, they can't get mad and go make a basket for the other team just because the coach did something dumb. It is the same when we make covenants with the Lord. Our covenants are our contract. We can't go make a basket for the other team, we signed a contract. For me, it made more sense, it was an ah-ha moment.
I love learning gospel stuff that I have heard my whole life, but suddenly it clicks and makes more sense, and it just works.