Friday, February 3, 2012

Mosiah 23


"Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith.
"Nevertheless—whosoever putteth his trust in him the same shall be lifted up at the last day. Yea, and thus it was with this people."

Sometimes we are in difficult situations. Situations that can be hard to bear. But if we put our trust in the Lord and are patient, enduring, and faithful through the hardship, we will be lifted up at the last day. We will find comfort, peace and joy.


Elder Orson F. Whitney taught that everything we experience teaches us valuable lessons:
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven (cited in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle [1972], 98).

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