O Remember, Remember

I’m not giving you these experiences for yourself – write them down.
It sounds like Elder Eyring has given copies of his earlier journals to his children.
The more we seek to record the more we will recognize the hand of the Lord in our lives.
When Elder Eyring talks about “grinding poverty” we should remember that few in this country have such lives.
The Comfortor . . . will bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you.

Grandpa didn’t have to do what he was doing for us. He could have had someone else do it or not have done it at all. But he was serving us, his family, in the way covenant disciples of Jesus Christ always do.

As we seek to remember it allows the Lord to remind us of those things which He would like us to be aware of.

. . . find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build your testimonies.

The challenge to remember has always been the hardest for those who are blessed abundantly. Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers. . . . It can also be hard to remember Him when our lives go badly. When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty or when our enemies prevail against us or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us. Then it can be hard for the Holy Ghost to bring to our remembrance the lifetime of blessings the Lord has given us from our infancy and in the midst of our distress.

“Grinding poverty” may be defined more by our reactions (meaning when we feel a mindset of poverty) than by our monetary position.

Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments. And we are promised that if we do that, we will have His Spirit to be with us.6 Those promises work together in a wonderful way to strengthen our testimonies and in time, through the Atonement, to change our natures as we keep our part of the promise.

“Wherefore, I beseech of you, brethren, that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ.”(Moroni 7:19)