GRACE (Eph 3:16), ‘to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man’…the place I have found Jesus the most has been in those moments described by Susan Evans McCloud in her song, Lord, I Would Follow Thee… “sorrow that the eye can’t see”.
Jeffrey R Holland - Those who endure conflicts fought in the lonely fox holes of the heart.
Ezra Taft Benson - Some of the greatest battles we will face will be fought within the silent chambers of our own souls.
(Eph 3:20) “…the love of Christ…Him that is able…to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or [even] think, according to the power that worketh in us.”
How would we ever find Him without these deeply personal and inner struggles? They are perfectly designed by our Omnipotent God to help us grow and become like Him.
Bruce R McConkie
“It is in our extremities that we become acquainted with God, which is life's greatest blessing. The soul of the righteous is sanctified through suffering.”
Those battles in the silent chambers of our soul is where Christ comes to dwell in our hearts by our faith. What is the breadth, length, depth, or height we would endure to know the love of Christ? Once you taste it you would endure anything to keep it.
James 1:2-4 (JST)
“Count it all joy when you fall into many afflictions; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
Jeffrey McClellan/BYU Speech/7-10-2018/Thy Troubles to Bless
“When you feel alone, when you think the promises of God may never be fulfilled, when you question what you believe--remember Abraham and Sarah. Remember that, like them, you have been blessed and you will be increased, in time. God takes the long view, and it takes a lifetime to become what God wants us to be. So be patient. And in the waiting and the hoping, remember that, like Abraham and Sarah, you are loved.”
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