Spiritual rebirth starts to have an impact on our lives in
response to our own agency. Relentless,
consistent agency is the only source of true miracles, and spiritual change is
the true miracle that Jesus Christ works.
He is the author of our salvation.
His atoning blood spots the ground on which we walk when we return to
live with the Father. His Atonement is the power of good in the world. It flows from eternity to all eternity, and
is the fire my which all things burn and have life.
Jesus Christ took upon himself the burden of all
creation. We cannot understand life
without understanding Him. "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent."
He is the core and center of life.
I know that He lives and that He will stand in the latter days on the
Earth. We will be eyewitnesses to His
glory. He is our Champion and our King,
and He labors among us even now. I love
Him. My life and my light and my every
action are in the process of being given to Him. There is nothing I wouldn't change for
Him.
The Atonement should be the power and focus of change in
our lives. Psychological therapy is
baseless and shallow because it attempts to use man's wisdom to solve symptoms
of deeper problems. Only the Gospel can
save the world from its own self-destruction.
Without it, single living souls will likewise perish.
The Lord faced great uncertainties and pain during His
lifetime. There were many things He
didn't know in His mortal life. However,
the power of who someone is always outshines the power of what He says or
does, and that power allowed Him to perform at a level that we couldn't match. His was the power to choose the right without perfect knowledge, in darkness and unfairness. The power of who we are can shine forward toward the future,
through the Atonement of Christ. We
believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by
obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. That belief must be the driving power behind
everything we say and do.
Spiritual rebirth is the process by which the spirit part
of us bleeds through the mortal part. It
is the process by which we begin to
wield spiritual power. It is the
night at the end of the dark day that is more beautiful than anything perceive by the physical senses. The Atonement is the great dividing link
between mortal and spiritual, symbolized and epitomized by the mortal Son of
God. Thus, only through the Atonement
can spirit and matter be inseparably connected
and receive an fullness of joy. But the
only way to the Atonement lies through the pathway of pain, uncertainty, and
darkness, just as it did for Him. It
lies along a thorny pathway that scratches and cuts us until our hearts bleed
and seems to stretch on forever, just as it did for Him.
In a way, the path is open and obvious to everyone, but no
one chooses to walk it. We know what we
should do, but we don't do it. Not because
we can't, but because we are unwilling to pay the price. But He was.
He was because He loved us. And because He loved us He died and
personally sustained the order and progression of mankind. May we ever worship Him and decide that
another's salvation, temporal or spiritual, is worth that price. Let us place offerings on the sacrificial alter until
our heart breaks and our spirits become contrite. There is an inner part of all of us that always sees the correct path and
whether or not we are on it, but sometimes we do those things that take us in a different direction anyway. On a single act of agency once
hung the very fabric of existence. So too
does our eternal destiny, by way of the actualization of rebirth, depend on a
single individual decision.
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