When I came home last night, I had been struggling, wondering why I have been faced with such difficult trials at times, and what to do about. I happened to be reading in Mosiah, and came across this scripture which really hit home to me:
I realized that I haven't really been as submissive as I could be, and that that could help me to be more able to handle and understand the trials that I face. It would especially help me to feel more at peace with my situation and my circumstances. At work today, one of the managers was talking to an employee who was complaining about his lot. He quoted a small bit from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade:"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father. (Mosiah 3:19)
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
This hit me as I realized that I haven't been trusting Heavenly Father to let trials come and let whatever happens happen. I was very grateful for the reminder from the Spirit to submit my will to Heavenly Father's, so I can become more like my Savior, who said "Not my will, but thine be done." I continue to be so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who gives me trials even when I feel ready to give up and "would that I might not drink the bitter cup and shrink," who not only still allows me to go through those trials for my own benefit, but who has given me so many ways to strengthen me and help me to pass through those trials.
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