Friday, January 20, 2012

Mosiah 9

"In the strength of the Lord did we go forth to battle," Mosiah 9:17 reads. They did cry mightily to the Lord for deliverance and they remembered the Lord and what he could do.

"In the Strength of the Lord," Henry B. Erying said:

We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. For some it may be poverty, but for others it may be prosperity. It may be the ravages of age or the exuberance of youth. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us? 
Knowing why we are tested and what the test is tells us how to get help. We have to go to God. He gives us the commandments. And we will need more than our own strength to keep them.
We need to keep and follow the commandments. Pray to the Lord. Ask for help. Endure to the end. When we have a difficult moment, we need to turn to the Lord to gain the strength needed to endure to the end.

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