What Will Come Tomorrow

The world teaches us that we have the right to be happy, that we deserve an easy life with everything given to us. This is a counterfeit of the adversary. This life is not meant  to be easy, nor is it within the laws of heaven to receive without effort. We are meant to be happy, but that happiness comes through work, effort, prayer and faith.

Sometimes in our extremity we assume that we are the only ones going through affliction, sometimes we think that we are alone. Our trial may be unique to us, but we can be assured that others are also facing things unique to them.

In the words of Sis. Nelson (loosely) desperation brings us closer to God, when we are desperately seeking the guidance of the spirit we are more intune with the spirit and more able to receive the guidance of the spirit. In moments of desperation we come closer to our Father and are more able to find who we are supposed to be.

 In our meetings we often hear that Heavenly Father won't give us a trial that we cannot handle, but as one very insightful blogger said this week, that promise is found nowhere in the scriptures. We are promised to not be tempted above that which we are able, but even that is with a clause, we will not be ensnared if we go to Christ to help us, tribulation is the same. We are often given things that seem so overwhelming and heart wrenching when considered alone, but we are not alone. These moments invite us to come closer to our Father and reveal our divine nature to our temporal mind.
 

As my companion Chi Hoa said, loosely quoting Elder Bednar "progression is not a circle, but a spiral, as we conquer a trial or temptation on a lower level, we move to a higher level, this does not mean that we did not learn, it simply means that by conquering it at one level we were prepared for the next to become more like our Savior and our Father above."

There are things coming to this earth that are new, we must be prepared to face these changes, the trials of today are the blessings to enable us to face what will come tomorrow.