Sunday morning here in Taipei, Taiwan and it's a special Stake Conference today with Elder Bednar as the guest speaker. He spoke simply and powerfully about he Restoration and why our church is named The Church of Jesus of Latter-Day Saints. He then focused on the strengthening power of the Atonement. First he shared from Mosiah 3:19 about how through he Atonement we can become clean from our sins and overcome the natural man. Then he read in the same verse how the Atonement is used to make us into Saints, converting us to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then he took us to Mosiah 24:13-16 where the Nephite people are enslaved by the people of Amulon. The Lord, in His infinite wisdom, does not simply take their burdens and suffering away, because from an eternal perspective there are eternal principles to realize through those experiences that can't be realized any other way. So, then what DID the Lord do? Did he just not answer their prayers? No. He (this us the important part) strengthened them.
Sometimes in our prayers we tell the Lord how we want our answers to come or how we want our blessings to be brought to us. We can have the faith to understand that the Lord is going to answer our prayer no matter what, and we can also have the eyes to see when and how that blessing comes without prescribing it'd method of realization.
Elder Bednar then invited us to buy a simple copy of the Book of Mormon and read through it looking for examples of how the Lord strengthens His people in affliction.
The Church is true and the Book is blue
Amen.
-Joe G.
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