Posts
“Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the
effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of our individual
sins and transgressions, but His Atonement also enables us to do good and
become better in ways that stretch far beyond our mortal capacities.” – Elder David
A. Bednar, “Bear Up Their Burdens With Ease,” Ensign, May 2014
We often wonder why we have to go through certain hardships
and trials. Feeling overwhelmed is common when encountering obstacles in life
but through the strengthening and enabling power of the Atonement, anything is
possible. On the title page of the Book
of Mormon, it says that the purposes of these words are to show “what great
things the Lord hath done for their fathers.” The great things that the Lord
did include strengthening and enabling them to do the works which He asked of
them. There are many examples of people who are strengthened by the Lord in
order to keep His commandments. So knowing that we are to learn from the Book
of Mormon and apply the messages therein to our own lives, how can we be
strengthened and enabled through the power of the atonement?
In Mosiah 3:19 it reads, “For the natural man is an enemy to
God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless
he yields to the enticing of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man
and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as
a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to
all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth
submit to his father.”
So, once we become submissive to the will of the Lord then
we are in the right state of mind to be strengthened and empowered by the
atonement. We need to have Faith that when we do what the Lord asks He will
provide a way.
In 1 Nephi 3:7 it reads, “…I will go and do the things which
the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto
the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may
accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.”
The Lord will not ask us to do anything that we are not able
to accomplish. He will always provide a way for us when we are doing His will. Elder
David A. Bednar said, “The Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and
individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance,
loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive
from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ.”
