I am truly grateful that I found you on RU-vid. My life has changed since studying the scriptures with you both each week. I wish I could give you guys a hug and thank you for expanding my knowledge in the gospel. Much love xx
Thanks Brother H. For the reminder. This video was an answer to prayer. I've been up most of the night asking why a member of my family has to go through a certain trial at this moment and I needed this. Again thank you.
Wow! Such a beautiful message! Amen to every word! I've often been asked if I had to live my life over again, is there anything I would change if I could. My answer is always the same- I wouldn't change a thing because of how much I have grown from the trials, and some of those trials were ones that I would never wish on anyone. To change one thing would change everything, and I would not be who I am or where I am. All the pain and suffering was the Lord's way of refining me, and I'm so grateful for that. And though I still have so much growing to do, I trust in, and hold to, the knowledge that I will never go through the fire alone 😊
I love thinking of it with the understanding that God loves us so much, that why would He make us suffer and go through something, that wasn’t for ours or someone else’s good! Because anything we experience our Savior is equally yoked with us and is going to have atone for and experience as well! He is also yoked Along with anyone else that may be sad or mad or hurt from our experience too!! Which puts even more weight on our Savior to carry! I can’t imagine a Father who has perfect love, to cause any of us, along with His PERFECT Son to have to carry anything more unless it was absolutely necessary! Can you imagine if everyone of Gods children had just one more difficult experience how much more that would require for our Savior to have suffered and atone for! I just can’t see Him doing that! It’s mind blowing to even try to comprehend how much our Savior suffered! I love how He says to Peter after he cut off Malchus’ ear in John 18:11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? Everything we go through our Father has given to us!! He has Blessed us with! He knows EXACTLY what we need to go through-not only for ourselves to grow and learn, but for so many people around us to as well!! “the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?” Just like Christ, we need to trust in our Father in Heaven and remember that there is something valuable for us to learn or experience in EVERY moment or circumstance of our lives! And if we trust in Him He will teach us and show us what that is! In fact when Simon Peter chose to “cut off his right ear” Jesus actually suffered and felt that exact pain that Malchus felt when his ear was cut off, and also felt the love and defense that Peter had for Him. Christ wanted to help Peter learn a very valuable lesson! Which if it did or didn’t teach Peter in that moment, it now has helped me and hopefully many others to learn from it as well! It helps me want to strive even harder to be even more careful about how I treat or speak or think about those around me, because I not only hurt them and myself but my Savior is carrying it, and suffered from it as well! But if I choose love and kindness and service, then that is what my Savior carries instead! “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me.”
Your preparation made it so I could totally relate to what you had to say. I particularly felt the Spirit when you talked about how even our best isn't' enough without Jesus Christ, who will do more with my life than I can do on my own. I'm certainly grateful for this program.
Last week I said that my husband was told that the Brother of Jared was the older brother. But at our discussion yesterday, I discovered that I remembered incorrectly. When the Book of Mormon was translated into the Korean language the brother of Jared is the younger brother.
This is off the subject but here goes. IN 2 NEPHI verses 15 and 16 it states that those who have dwindled in unbelief shall not be forgotten. That is at the end of verse 15. Then verse 16 starts out as if those who dwindled in unbelief will speak out of the dust and the spirit will make this possible. Now I ask you , who is speaking out of the dust?
