Often times we become so caught up in our day to day lives that we become consumed. Sometimes we lose sight of why we are really here, what really matters and we lose sight of the real and true answers to the questions we have, our questions on life, love, our trials and efforts. When we lose that sight, the true focus, we become fixated on things and answers of the natural man and what we want for ourselves. I wonder how anyone can lose sight of the grand wonders of our Heavenly Father. I have come to find that I cannot do without Him and I don’t want to do it without Him.
I see something so clearly in the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that I don’t ever want to lose it. I say something and what I mean by that is many things. I don’t even know how to describe it-wonderful comes to mind. Complete joy and peace like I have never known, it consumes me & I love it. I don’t ever want to lose this feeling.
I have come to understand that there is more to life than anything the natural man has to offer me-the natural man being myself alone, void of the hand of God. I see that as empty and without true love, joy or peace, without purpose. That is very sad to me and I don’t want to be sad like that ever again. Don’t get me wrong, I felt love and thought I was happy with my life as it was before involving a relationship with God but it was nothing like the love and happiness I feel now having a solid relationship with my Savior Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father. No matter what happens I pray that I am able to cling to my Savior at any cost. I hold my relationship with Him very dear to my heart.
I would not know this feeling, any of these feelings, had I not opened my heart to a greater understanding than I had ever been open to receiving before. My whole way of thinking has changed as has my whole life, all of which has been for the better. Before I knew this greatness of The Gospel of Jesus Christ I was lost, unaware of the purpose or reason for this life, and even though I had friends and family I felt alone. Once the truth of The Gospel was not only brought into my life, once I was open to receiving this truth, everything changed, my heart changed, Alma 19:33 (Book of Mormon) that their hearts had been changed; that they had no more desire to do evil and my focus is more clear. I know now what really matters and I have found strength in it.
I have come to see my testimony grow and it strengthens my commitment to Jesus Christ, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and to my family and friends. I never imagined I would believe in and feel so much love for my Heavenly Father. It is because of this love I feel that I can do anything and desire to do anything I am asked of by the leaders of The Church because I have this understanding, a knowledge that all that is asked of me by them has been revealed to them by our Heavenly Father. Who am I to tell Him “no”? It is not my place to say “no”, or say that ” I can’t” or “don’t want to” or “it’s too hard”. It has been asked of me because He knows I am capable, I can do hard things with His help Philippians 4:13 (New Testament) I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me and more importantly I want to, I desire to learn by and through doing hard things.
Because I know these truths I am able to do what is asked of me. I feel His love for me always and it is His love that has seen me through all my struggles, even when I was not able to see or even recognize His hand in my life. He is my strength, my courage, the very source of my faith. I feel Him with me, I feel His love and I know He hears my prayers, my cries for His help, He answers my prayers, I feel His guidance ever present in my life. I know that by leaning on Jesus Christ, hard as I do at times, I can get through anything.
Helaman 5:12 (Book of Mormon) 12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall. He is my rock, the very foundation of my soul.
As my heart and priorities have changed and my focus has become centered on Jesus Christ and His Gospel, where it needs to be, I continue to grow. I pray that you will put God first in your life if you haven’t already and feel His greatness just as I do, open your heart to the light and understanding that only Christ can offer. Cleave unto that feeling and don’t ever let go, don’t ever lose your heart of understanding.
Because I know these truths I am able to do what is asked of me. I feel His love for me always and it is His love that has seen me through all my struggles, even when I was not able to see or even recognize His hand in my life. He is my strength, my courage, the very source of my faith. I feel Him with me, I feel His love and I know He hears my prayers, my cries for His help, He answers my prayers, I feel His guidance ever present in my life. I know that by leaning on Jesus Christ, hard as I do at times, I can get through anything.
