As we have been on this journey I have come to appreciate and echo the following words of Elder David A Bednar from a talk he gave at a CES Devotional, on March 3, 2013, entitled That We Might Not Shrink . . . He said, I do not know all of the reasons, all of the purposes, and I do not know everything about the Lord’s timing. With Nephi, you and I can say that we “do not know the meaning of all things” (1 Nephi 11:17). But some things I absolutely do know. I know we are spirit sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father. I know the Eternal Father is the author of the plan of happiness. I know Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. I know Jesus enabled the Father’s plan through His infinite and eternal Atonement. I know that the Lord, who was “bruised, broken, [and] torn for us” (“Jesus of Nazareth, Savior and King,” Hymns, no. 181), can succor and strengthen “his people according to their infirmities” (Alma 7:12). And I know one of the greatest blessings of mortality is to not shrink and to allow our individual will to be “swallowed up in the will of the Father” (Mosiah 15:7). Though I do not know everything about how and when and where and why these blessings occur, I do know and I witness they are real. I testify that all of these things are true
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:58:11 +0000