My heart feels gratitude for Church teachings and my testimony and my faith and my confidence that I will not be given more to handle than I can. Also that challenges are not always removed but they are made bearable. Scripturally those two incidents have strengthened me. And the Hymn about Lead Kindly Light.... I do not ask to see the distant scene. One step enough to me.
I have the overall understanding of the Gospel plan and also mortality and our individual life experiences but I find that I do want to see way down my life-road so I know how it all ends up! I seem to profess faith but I also seem to want sneak peeks at the future and how will mortal events be handled. My main concern...How will I handle those unknown mortal events?.... Things like declining HubbyHealth and aging and lack of agility and even ability taking a certain toll on me. What to do and how to do and what about this and what about that and what if and also what about if only things?
I profess faith but do I live faithless in my own future? Perhaps so. Do I feel afraid as I see things unfold and I'm caught off guard with overwhelmness? Maybe. Do I fear to be left at the back of the pack and forgotten...not being what I once was by what I can no longer do/accomplish/be? Could be.
So yesterday at the Temple I finally felt okay!!
The two scriptures that I alluded to earlier, really spoke to me, at the Temple. The way I think, and what I think about, reflect my faith, or lack thereof. Thinking negatively can become my own temptation. I was going there a lot, wanting knowledge of everything coming down the Pike, in my own life. I was envisioning my fears about my unknown future. I came home and read 1 Cor. 10:13 and drew strength from the entire verse.
I have never asked, nor desired, for my own life challenges to be lifted/removed/to vanish. I understand this is my own mortal journey and my current situation with clouds blocking my view, is mine to experience but what I did ask for, just by desiring and not even a formal prayer, was seeing what the future held/how would things turn out/would I have the strength, faith and physical oomph, to handle it?
Now don't judge me.
Just sharing my journey.
Anyhow...1 Cor. 10:13 and applying that to my own life (with doubtful thoughts being the temptation to avoid) was an eye-opener as was Mosiah 24:14-15, 21. The one about the burdens being to heavy and the Lord not removing them but making them bearable and feeling lighter. That also came very strong into my mind.
I have faith that living in the moment and focusing with that faith will give me confidence for my unseen/unknown mortal experiences to come. Yes. That is basic doctrine. Yes...I have known that but now it's in the weave of my soul and is a reality to me. I'm so thankful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 Cor. 10:13 There hath no temptation ataken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be btempted above that ye are able; but will with the ctemptation also make a way to descape, that ye may be able to ebear it.
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Mosiah 24:
14 And I will also ease the aburdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as bwitnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their cafflictions.
15 And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did astrengthen them that they could bear up their bburdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with cpatience to all the will of the Lord.
21 Yea, and in the valley of Alma they poured out their athanks to God because he had been merciful unto them, and eased their bburdens, and had delivered them out of bondage; for they were in bondage, and none could deliver them except it were the Lord their God.
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I just got back from the store and checked FB and saw this by President Nelson. It fits right in with what I just experienced! Yes!
Take your questions directly to your Heavenly Father in prayer. Ask Him, in the name of Jesus Christ, to guide you. You can learn for yourself—right now—how to receive personal revelation. And nothing will make a bigger difference to your life than that!
I promise you—not the person sitting next to you—but you, that, wherever you are in the world, wherever you are on the covenant path—even if, at this moment, you are not centered on the path—I promise you that if you will sincerely and persistently do the spiritual work needed to develop the crucial, spiritual skill of learning how to hear the whisperings of the Holy Ghost, that you will have all the direction you will ever need in your life. You will be given the answers to the questions of your heart, in the Lord’s own way and time.
When you know your life is being directed by God, regardless of the challenges and disappointments that may come, you will feel joy and peace.
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