Keep commitments

I read the first several verses of Doctrine and Covenants 132, where God our Creator and Savior is laying out exactly how important this question of wives and husbands is: after we die, we are not held committed to spouses we aren’t worthy to keep, nor are we bound to spouses who are not worthy to keep us. Our character is formed and developed by the choices we make here, based on what we know. If we have advanced far enough to understand the importance of priesthood power, which is the power of God, and if we have exercised our faith enough to have access to this power, and if we have come in by the gate and continued in the path of righteousness, that is, if we have made and are keeping our covenants, then when we die our covenants continue and we gain access to God’s power of creation. If any of those commitments on our side are not made and kept, then we are not blessed by the laws of God, because we did not keep them. Our own choices prevent our progress. If we did not know, we are not condemned, but are given whatever opportunities to change the merciful Savior allows. If we did know, and chose not to obey, the Savior is willing to work with us through repentance and us taking the consequences of our choices in this life, leaving the consequences after this life up to Him, who is perfect, complete, whole, merciful, just, and all knowing, so as to be able to make clear determinations of what ought to be done for and with us. His aim in telling us this and in working with us through repentance and trying again, is to bring us joy, because His joy comes from helping us progress. He wants us to experience the joy of helping each other and becoming better people, together.