But no matter how much I say I love the dissonance in music, I'm not always the biggest fan of dissonance in real life. Opposition is hard. And it's real.
I'm going to talk about my testimony on the reality of Satan. He's real, guys. And he's mean. But without the temptation and opposing role he plays in my life, I don't think I would be able to so confidently say I have a testimony of the Savior and this Gospel.
Leading up to receiving my endowment, I was plagued with many things that I knew was Satan trying to keep me from doing a good thing. From the greatest thing. But I would not allow him to keep me from making those covenants and growing to be more like God!
He attacked me with things like thoughts; I would make mistakes I'd never really made before, and those thoughts lingered in my mind, and Satan would try to make me think that those mistakes would keep me from going to the temple. But that's when I would shout back at him that those mistakes would be erased with the Atonement by taking the Sacrament. And how better to understand and appreciate the Atonement than going to the temple to be healed and grow closer to the Christ that atoned for those very sins I had made?
These thoughts, though hard they were to fight at times, were a good way for me to strengthen the testimony I already had. They helped confirm that I absolutely needed Christ and the temple in my life because of all those mistakes and imperfections.
How much sweeter the Sacrament and Atonement in general becomes when we have a reason for it. When we realize we are weak and imperfect and need the strength from the Lord to overcome our difficulties, the bread and water become so much sweeter to the mouth than if we were already perfect.
Life is hard. I probably say this in every post, but it's true. Sometimes it's really not fun at all to face the various challenges and to-list in front of us, but we can do it with Christ! But it's also funny how sometimes, even as the hardest things happen, so do the sweetest things. And I think we realize just how wonderful those sweet blessings that come from being righteous are because of the dark trials that we face.
The consonance is so much better to the ear after those moments of dissonance in God's grand symphony of our life.
*Pictures: Day I went through the temple. My family came and it was the greatest! I was the happiest person on the Earth that day. Guaranteed.*
Leading up to receiving my endowment, I was plagued with many things that I knew was Satan trying to keep me from doing a good thing. From the greatest thing. But I would not allow him to keep me from making those covenants and growing to be more like God!
He attacked me with things like thoughts; I would make mistakes I'd never really made before, and those thoughts lingered in my mind, and Satan would try to make me think that those mistakes would keep me from going to the temple. But that's when I would shout back at him that those mistakes would be erased with the Atonement by taking the Sacrament. And how better to understand and appreciate the Atonement than going to the temple to be healed and grow closer to the Christ that atoned for those very sins I had made?
These thoughts, though hard they were to fight at times, were a good way for me to strengthen the testimony I already had. They helped confirm that I absolutely needed Christ and the temple in my life because of all those mistakes and imperfections.
How much sweeter the Sacrament and Atonement in general becomes when we have a reason for it. When we realize we are weak and imperfect and need the strength from the Lord to overcome our difficulties, the bread and water become so much sweeter to the mouth than if we were already perfect.
Life is hard. I probably say this in every post, but it's true. Sometimes it's really not fun at all to face the various challenges and to-list in front of us, but we can do it with Christ! But it's also funny how sometimes, even as the hardest things happen, so do the sweetest things. And I think we realize just how wonderful those sweet blessings that come from being righteous are because of the dark trials that we face.
The consonance is so much better to the ear after those moments of dissonance in God's grand symphony of our life.
*Pictures: Day I went through the temple. My family came and it was the greatest! I was the happiest person on the Earth that day. Guaranteed.*
(#PerfectDiscriptionOfMyFeelings #MyWordsExactly)
