I know that, especially recently, many of us are or know of someone who is going through difficult times.
I was browsing on the Church's website and one of the headers was titled "As Many as I Love, I will Rebuke and Chasten." It caught my eye and as I read it I thought of how positive trials can be. To know that the Lord is mindful of us and is preparing us to reach our full potential and in turn, us and our hearts being open and willing to be humbled and to grow brings peace and comfort to my mind and heart.
I know our Father in Heaven is aware of us and will "grant us the desires of our hearts" if they are righteous ones.
I was browsing on the Church's website and one of the headers was titled "As Many as I Love, I will Rebuke and Chasten." It caught my eye and as I read it I thought of how positive trials can be. To know that the Lord is mindful of us and is preparing us to reach our full potential and in turn, us and our hearts being open and willing to be humbled and to grow brings peace and comfort to my mind and heart.
I know our Father in Heaven is aware of us and will "grant us the desires of our hearts" if they are righteous ones.
Below is a quote I love from Elder D. Todd Christopherson's talk:
"I would like to speak of one particular attitude and practice we need to adopt if we are to meet our Heavenly Father’s high expectations. It is this: willingly to accept and even seek correction. Correction is vital if we would conform our lives “unto a perfect man, [that is,] unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13). Paul said of divine correction or chastening, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth” (Hebrews 12:6). Though it is often difficult to endure, truly we ought to rejoice that God considers us worth the time and trouble to correct.
Divine chastening has at least three purposes: (1) to persuade us to repent, (2) to refine and sanctify us, and (3) at times to redirect our course in life to what God knows is a better path."
