My message to you tonight is that you can and must be an important part of His giving comfort to those who need comfort. You can play your part best if you know more of how He answers those prayers for help.
Is it “you must” for your sake, for His sake, or for their sake?
…the trials of mortal life for good people can still be heavy burdens.
You have seen such tests in the lives of good people you love. You have felt a desire to help them. There is a reason for your feeling of compassion for them.
You are a covenant member of the Church of Jesus Christ. A great change began in your heart when you came into the Church. You made a covenant, and you received a promise that began changing your very nature.
Our desires to help others are enhanced or rooted in our covenants.
“And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.”
Does that mean that when burdens went beyond what the Lord had in store for them that the burdens chafed? I feel like my efforts to bear up under my burdens patiently and cheerfully have given Laura license to postpone her healing process. I think my patience has enabled her to be slothful.
I never realized that job lived 140 years after he had lost everything to his trials.
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