Helaman 12

We do not realize the severity of the tests we are currently going through when we prosper and have peace. President Harold B. Lee said:

“We’re tested and we’re tried. Perhaps we don’t realize the severity of the tests we’re going through. In the early days of the Church, there were murders committed, there were mobbings. The Saints were driven out into the desert. They were starving, they were unclad, and they were cold. We’re the inheritors of what they gave to us. But what are we doing with it? Today we’re basking in the lap of luxury, the like of which we’ve never seen before in the history of the world. It would seem that probably this is the most severe test of any we’ve ever had in the history of this Church” (Dahl, “Fit for the Kingdom,” in Studies in Scripture, 5:369).

What are we doing to past this test? Are we studying the scriptures and saying our daily prayers when we are not experiencing hardships? Are we staying humble and charitable even when we are so richly blessed? Do we remember God always? We have moments of hardships, but it's what we do in the times of peace and prosperity that can really show what we believe.