This is one of the scriptures I remember well from my mission. We used it often to teach people about the resurrection, which is a gift to all who live on earth.
"The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we shall be brought to stand before God, knowing even as we know now, and have a bright recollection of all our guilt." (Alma 11:43)
I think this gives us some key understanding of what "The Judgement" is going to be. We'll be resurrected. Our bodies will be perfect. We'll stand before God. I don't think it's like a movie where we see all the key scenes in our lives in front of the courtroom and jury. I feel like we will very keenly be aware of our guilt. Aware of the things we have done wrong that we have not repented of. I feel like it will be a pretty uncomfortable situation. God demands perfection, yet here we are in front of Him, remembering all our imperfections.
Luckily, there's the second part of the Atonement: the ability to repent of our sins. To right our wrongs (as much as we are able). To repent of my sins, it helps to remember them. We need to be aware of our wrongdoing in order to repent of it.
I don't know about anyone else, but I have a hard time remembering day-to-day things. Memories especially fade with time. The longer you let something go, the less you will remember it. I say this because if I commit a sin, the best time to repent is as soon as I recognize it. The longer I wait, the more likely it is to fade into nothing in my memory. These things don't stay hidden or forgotten forever, though. As the scripture says, I will "have a bright recollection of all [my] guilt".
My goal, then, should be to keep that list as short as possible by repenting daily and also (obviously) avoiding sin.
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