The Good News of the Gospel
The good news of the gospel is what I'll be teaching to the people in southern Spain. I'd better understand what that phrase means if I'm going to do that and over the past 3 days I've found a new bit of hope. I've better understood what the good news of the gospel is.
This glorious news has only the power we give it. Just like God's power on this earth he's given to worthy men, the priesthood, is only as powerful as the man is worthy and uses that power righteously. As a daughter of Heavenly Father I have access to the power of the atonement, but I only have access to the power I allow to come to my life. I must open my heart and trust the Lord. Bitterness, justification, grudges, anger...those things blind me to what I can actually truly do and what I can actually truly control.
Something I've come to understand: those things that inhibit me from progressing can be left behind. Those things may be connected to important memories, but by leaving behind those things that inhibit me doesn't mean forgetting whatever was connected to them is forgotten.
How does that work?? I've been told in many different ways by many different people that I need to move on from things I've been holding onto for a long time. Every time I hear something like that I get frustrated because I feel moving on would be disrespecting all the wonderful memories and experiences. It would be forgetting the joy and love I felt through out those memories.
But guess what? I don't have to forget. Forgetting and moving on are two COMPLETELY different things. Learning from the people I've come in contact with, reviewing my actions, their actions, and the experiences I had is what moving on is. Taking what I can and learning from it is moving on. Making myself more Christlike because of my experiences is moving on. This is a huge deal for me!
And how am I to see through what I've put in front of myself, blinding myself with? Seeing past this requires me to use the atonement. I can move past the blindness then look back with clarity because of Christ. It's Christ!! It's the good news of the gospel! The atonement, forgiveness, repentance, love, charity, joy. But we can only use it if we aren't blinded by the natural man.
Now, the next thing is to not forget this, haha. We can learn from everything we experience if we are humble enough and open enough with the Lord. I've got a lot of work to do and moving on still won't be a cinch, but I have a new hope. I don't feel hopeless. I can't think of another word for it, but I truly do feel hope. It's my middle name, so I suppose I won't forget that either.
I'm going to teach this to so many others, so I'd better keep it up. ;)
This glorious news has only the power we give it. Just like God's power on this earth he's given to worthy men, the priesthood, is only as powerful as the man is worthy and uses that power righteously. As a daughter of Heavenly Father I have access to the power of the atonement, but I only have access to the power I allow to come to my life. I must open my heart and trust the Lord. Bitterness, justification, grudges, anger...those things blind me to what I can actually truly do and what I can actually truly control.
Something I've come to understand: those things that inhibit me from progressing can be left behind. Those things may be connected to important memories, but by leaving behind those things that inhibit me doesn't mean forgetting whatever was connected to them is forgotten.
How does that work?? I've been told in many different ways by many different people that I need to move on from things I've been holding onto for a long time. Every time I hear something like that I get frustrated because I feel moving on would be disrespecting all the wonderful memories and experiences. It would be forgetting the joy and love I felt through out those memories.
But guess what? I don't have to forget. Forgetting and moving on are two COMPLETELY different things. Learning from the people I've come in contact with, reviewing my actions, their actions, and the experiences I had is what moving on is. Taking what I can and learning from it is moving on. Making myself more Christlike because of my experiences is moving on. This is a huge deal for me!
And how am I to see through what I've put in front of myself, blinding myself with? Seeing past this requires me to use the atonement. I can move past the blindness then look back with clarity because of Christ. It's Christ!! It's the good news of the gospel! The atonement, forgiveness, repentance, love, charity, joy. But we can only use it if we aren't blinded by the natural man.
Now, the next thing is to not forget this, haha. We can learn from everything we experience if we are humble enough and open enough with the Lord. I've got a lot of work to do and moving on still won't be a cinch, but I have a new hope. I don't feel hopeless. I can't think of another word for it, but I truly do feel hope. It's my middle name, so I suppose I won't forget that either.
I'm going to teach this to so many others, so I'd better keep it up. ;)
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