Elder Uchdorf
Now if falls to sue to live as believers in a world or disbelief. The challenge is ours to daily practice the principles of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and to live true to God's commandments. We will have to stay strong under peer pressure, not to be impressed. by popular trends or false prophets, disregard the ridicule of the ungodly, resist temptations of the evil-one, and overcome our own laziness. Just think about it. How much easier would it have been for Daniel to simply go along with the ways of Babylon? He could have feasted on the rich foods provided by the kind and indulged in the worldly pleasures of the natural man. He would have avoided ridicule. He would have been popular. He would have fit in. His path might have been much less complicated. That is, of course, until the day when the kind demanded an interpretation of His dream. Then Daniel would have found that he, like the rest of Babylon's 'wisemen,' had lost his connection to the true source of light and wisdom. Daniel passed his test. Ours still continues.
