Several years ago, when I was working in Reservations for Jet Blue Airways, Craig and I were blessed to be able to travel to Cancun, Mexico. We were so amazed as we traveled the rough dirt roads off the beaten path, at the countless numbers of outcroppings of stone ruins. Unlike Chitzen Itza and Tulum, most of what is left from the Great Mayan Civilization still lies covered by years of creeping vines, billowing trees and the sand from a thousand storms. And what of the inhabitants of  those and other great civilizations that peopled the earth since the time of it's creation? So many of them were unable to endure to the end, falling prey to the insidious darkness the evil one instituted to foil the Great Plan of Salvation presented by our Loving Heavenly Father. 

President Henry B. Eyring, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, had this to say about the power of enduring: "If the foundation of faith is not embedded in our hearts, the power to endure will crumble."


What can you and I do to build our foundation of faith and how does it get embedded in our hearts? Here are 7 things that President Eyring said that our foundation needed to be built with. 1) Personal Integrity, 2) The Gospel of Jesus Christ, 3) Principles, 4) Ordinances, 5) Covenants, 6) Faith in The Lord Jesus Christ and Choosing To Do What He Would Do, 7) Love As The Savior Loved.

We must build our foundation of faith, line upon line, precept on precept; gathering from the scriptures, personal prayer, our relationship with the Savior, serving others, humbling ourselves before God, being willing to choose His will over ours, Temple attendance, and a myriad of other ways. By valiantly attending to our foundation, each and everyday of our lives, it will be embedded in our hearts and it will not crumble.

Our enduring to the end starts today. Even so, President Eyring taught us not to be overwhelmed and in a hurry. The old saying comes to mind, "Rome wasn't built in a day." The stone ruins of civilizations past weren't either. Foundations, when fortified and strengthened, will pass the test of time. We too, when fortified and strengthened by our foundation of faith, will be able to endure to the end with joy and thanksgiving.