He Sees the Big Picture
I can't even begin to express the smallest degree of my testimony of this. It has literally shaped everything that I am today. It has changed me. It has molded me. And even though, at times, it was the hardest thing I ever did to completely turn my will to Him and say "Father what would you have me do," it was the greatest thing I ever did and I truly became a little better because of it.
I can count endless times where I have been on my knees praying asking for guidance and the answer comes to do the unthinkable -- to quit volleyball, to serve a mission, to stop writing my best friend while on my mission and the list goes on and on. All the while, being the stubborn person that I am, fighting the prompting, yet the moment I give my will to Him everything changes. Immediate power and strength comes. Even when sometimes the understanding I so desperately want doesn't come, something better does -- peace, comfort, and a reassurance that Heavenly Father has nothing but undying and perfect love for me. He doesn't want me to hurt. His ultimate purpose is to help me find joy and come home so why would he ask me to do hard things? Because those are the things that will help me to become someone I never thought possible.
Do you know what one of the hard things about turning your will to the Father is? The world does not like it. Yes, it will be the best decision you will ever make, but I promise it will be the hardest. It is to fight against the natural man inside wanting one thing yet knowing what you should do, to fight against the temptations and trials that are thrown at you, to fight against the world who wants nothing more than for you to conform yourself to it. You literally have to fight against everything inside you.
When those hard times comes our instinct is to doubt and say "that wasn't really from Heavenly Father, I guess I made it up." You cannot think that. Elder Holland says it best when he says, "If it was right when you prayed about it and trust it and lived for it, it is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts.... Don't give in. Certainly don't give in to that being who is bent on the destruction of your happiness....Face your doubts, master your fears, 'cast not away therefore your confidence.' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you."
KEEP GOING. IT IS SO WORTH IT. I know with everything that I am that it is worth it. You will come to know your Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ better than you ever have before. You will not only know them more but you will be a little more like Them. You will be able to conquer those things you used to thing were unconquerable. You will truly find the highest form of happiness -- true joy that only comes from Them. There will be peace in a world that never seems to stop spinning, stop moving, stop changing. You will come to trust them and realize that they really do see the end -- even though we cannot.
The greatest thing about this is that, like I said, the moment you decide to give it all to him there is that immediate power. That power that is unlike anything the world can give. Unlike any "happiness" the world offers. It is from our Savior, Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice He made. In that moment you are given the strength to overcome everything that is thrown your way, and the best part is, you don't have to do it alone. Every single step you take He carries you all the way through. I know that He carries us all of the time, but I especially know He does doing those hard times.
In those moments when you receive a prompting to do something hard, to give up something you love, and you start to wonder why remember that He sees the whole picture. He wants you to come home and He knows what needs to happen for that to be possible. Never doubt that. Never doubt that He loves you despite all of the bad you've done despite all of the wrong choices you've made He loves you for who you can become and He is set on helping you to reach that.
Remember "All things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things." (2 Nephi 2:24) Trust Him. Trust that He knows and that He wants the very best for you.
I can count endless times where I have been on my knees praying asking for guidance and the answer comes to do the unthinkable -- to quit volleyball, to serve a mission, to stop writing my best friend while on my mission and the list goes on and on. All the while, being the stubborn person that I am, fighting the prompting, yet the moment I give my will to Him everything changes. Immediate power and strength comes. Even when sometimes the understanding I so desperately want doesn't come, something better does -- peace, comfort, and a reassurance that Heavenly Father has nothing but undying and perfect love for me. He doesn't want me to hurt. His ultimate purpose is to help me find joy and come home so why would he ask me to do hard things? Because those are the things that will help me to become someone I never thought possible.
Do you know what one of the hard things about turning your will to the Father is? The world does not like it. Yes, it will be the best decision you will ever make, but I promise it will be the hardest. It is to fight against the natural man inside wanting one thing yet knowing what you should do, to fight against the temptations and trials that are thrown at you, to fight against the world who wants nothing more than for you to conform yourself to it. You literally have to fight against everything inside you.
When those hard times comes our instinct is to doubt and say "that wasn't really from Heavenly Father, I guess I made it up." You cannot think that. Elder Holland says it best when he says, "If it was right when you prayed about it and trust it and lived for it, it is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts.... Don't give in. Certainly don't give in to that being who is bent on the destruction of your happiness....Face your doubts, master your fears, 'cast not away therefore your confidence.' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you."
KEEP GOING. IT IS SO WORTH IT. I know with everything that I am that it is worth it. You will come to know your Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ better than you ever have before. You will not only know them more but you will be a little more like Them. You will be able to conquer those things you used to thing were unconquerable. You will truly find the highest form of happiness -- true joy that only comes from Them. There will be peace in a world that never seems to stop spinning, stop moving, stop changing. You will come to trust them and realize that they really do see the end -- even though we cannot.
The greatest thing about this is that, like I said, the moment you decide to give it all to him there is that immediate power. That power that is unlike anything the world can give. Unlike any "happiness" the world offers. It is from our Savior, Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice He made. In that moment you are given the strength to overcome everything that is thrown your way, and the best part is, you don't have to do it alone. Every single step you take He carries you all the way through. I know that He carries us all of the time, but I especially know He does doing those hard times.
In those moments when you receive a prompting to do something hard, to give up something you love, and you start to wonder why remember that He sees the whole picture. He wants you to come home and He knows what needs to happen for that to be possible. Never doubt that. Never doubt that He loves you despite all of the bad you've done despite all of the wrong choices you've made He loves you for who you can become and He is set on helping you to reach that.
Remember "All things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things." (2 Nephi 2:24) Trust Him. Trust that He knows and that He wants the very best for you.
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