Have you ever found yourself wondering if you are doing enough? Are you serving enough people? Are you reading your scriptures enough every day? Are you...Are you..Are you???
Bruce C. Hafen, who later became a member of the Seventy, wrote:
“Some Church members feel weighed down with discouragement about the circumstances of their personal lives, even when they are making sustained and admirable efforts. Frequently, these feelings of self-disappointment come not from wrongdoing, but from stresses and troubles for which we may not be fully to blame. The Atonement of Jesus Christ applies to these experiences because it applies to all of life. The Savior can wipe away all of our tears, after all we can do....
“The Savior’s atonement is ... the healing power not only for sin, but also for carelessness, inadequacy, and all mortal bitterness. The Atonement is not just for sinners” ( “Beauty for Ashes: The Atonement of Jesus Christ,” Ensign, Apr. 1990, 7 ).
"As members of the Church, if we chart a course leading to eternal life … and are going in the right direction … and, step by step and phase by phase, are perfecting our souls by overcoming the world, then it is absolutely guaranteed—there is no question whatever about it—we shall gain eternal life. …If we chart a course and follow it to the best of our ability in this life, then when we go out of this life we'll continue in exactly that same course" (Bruce R. McConkie, "Jesus Christ and Him Crucified," in 1976 Devotional Speeches of the Year [1977], 400–401).
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