Kelley Barrow Miles shared a link.
Day 19: God never abandons us, even when it feels like we have been directed down a wrong road. Another great message from a great Apostle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQC-_srxH8&feature=share&list=PL4E784EC0770935C0&index=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQC-_srxH8&feature=share&list=PL4E784EC0770935C0&index=3
Day 19: "Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth." King Benjamin (aka my favorite BoM prophet, more on him tomorrow!) Mosiah 4:9 #40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
Day 19: Jesus Christ is our Redeemer because he paid the price for our sins, our sorrow, our illness, our pains, and all afflictions.
I have pondered a lot about this post. I have some draft posts written that go into the doctrine and the whys that Jesus is our Redeemer. I have others that have scriptures, and quotes discussing how Jesus Christ is our Redeemer. None of those posts felt right.
I collect sacred spots in my life. Places where I have learned truths. Places where I have grown. Places where I have felt God.
One of my most sacred spots is a hallway in the Richards building (the student gym facilities at BYU). During my undergrad years my ward (my church congregation) met in the Richards building. It was during that time that I started to understand what it means that Jesus Christ is your Redeemer. On a spring evening I was leaving my bishop’s office in the Richards building. We had been discussing repentance and how Christ paid the price of our sins so we don’t have to carry the weight of them any more.
I just could not understand how that could really happen. I still felt the pain, I felt the weight. What did it mean that Christ paid the price for them? I was walking down the hall just pondering all of my questions, pondering what my bishop and I had discussed, when an overpowering feeling just came over me in the hallway of the Richards building.
It was warm, it was peaceful, it was full of love, and it removed all of my pain. The pain was gone. I still remembered the sins that had caused the pain, but the pain and the weight of the sins were gone. I sat on a bench and pondered what had happened for a few moments.
And you know what close to 14 years after that experience I still can’t tell you exactly how the Atonement works. But I can tell you that I know if we humbly repent of our sins, if we truly forsake them, confess them, and try to restore the damage done, and seek to obey the Lord’s commandments, the pain and the weight of the sin does go away.
As I have continued to live life, I have come to understand the Atonement covers so much more than our sins. I have had the pain lifted from sorrow (not a result of any sin, but just as a result of life). I have had grief and heartbreak healed. I have been given the power to forgive, when I did no wrong. All of that is a result of the Atonement.
Ten years after this experience I was able to walk that same spot in the Richards building every morning as I went for my morning swim. I took the long way to the pool so for a moment every morning I could visit my sacred spot, and review what sins and sorrows I still needed to give to the Lord.
It hurts to carry pain and sorrow with you. I am so very grateful and humbled that Jesus Christ willingly suffered and paid the price for those afflictions, so I don’t have to carry them. Jesus Christ is my creator, He is my eternal judge, He is the savior from death, but Jesus Christ is my God because of the Atonement.
I know Jesus Christ is the redeemer of the world. He paid the price for all of my sins, sorrows, and pain, and He paid the price for yours too.
#40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
I have pondered a lot about this post. I have some draft posts written that go into the doctrine and the whys that Jesus is our Redeemer. I have others that have scriptures, and quotes discussing how Jesus Christ is our Redeemer. None of those posts felt right.
I collect sacred spots in my life. Places where I have learned truths. Places where I have grown. Places where I have felt God.
One of my most sacred spots is a hallway in the Richards building (the student gym facilities at BYU). During my undergrad years my ward (my church congregation) met in the Richards building. It was during that time that I started to understand what it means that Jesus Christ is your Redeemer. On a spring evening I was leaving my bishop’s office in the Richards building. We had been discussing repentance and how Christ paid the price of our sins so we don’t have to carry the weight of them any more.
I just could not understand how that could really happen. I still felt the pain, I felt the weight. What did it mean that Christ paid the price for them? I was walking down the hall just pondering all of my questions, pondering what my bishop and I had discussed, when an overpowering feeling just came over me in the hallway of the Richards building.
It was warm, it was peaceful, it was full of love, and it removed all of my pain. The pain was gone. I still remembered the sins that had caused the pain, but the pain and the weight of the sins were gone. I sat on a bench and pondered what had happened for a few moments.
And you know what close to 14 years after that experience I still can’t tell you exactly how the Atonement works. But I can tell you that I know if we humbly repent of our sins, if we truly forsake them, confess them, and try to restore the damage done, and seek to obey the Lord’s commandments, the pain and the weight of the sin does go away.
As I have continued to live life, I have come to understand the Atonement covers so much more than our sins. I have had the pain lifted from sorrow (not a result of any sin, but just as a result of life). I have had grief and heartbreak healed. I have been given the power to forgive, when I did no wrong. All of that is a result of the Atonement.
Ten years after this experience I was able to walk that same spot in the Richards building every morning as I went for my morning swim. I took the long way to the pool so for a moment every morning I could visit my sacred spot, and review what sins and sorrows I still needed to give to the Lord.
It hurts to carry pain and sorrow with you. I am so very grateful and humbled that Jesus Christ willingly suffered and paid the price for those afflictions, so I don’t have to carry them. Jesus Christ is my creator, He is my eternal judge, He is the savior from death, but Jesus Christ is my God because of the Atonement.
I know Jesus Christ is the redeemer of the world. He paid the price for all of my sins, sorrows, and pain, and He paid the price for yours too.
#40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
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