Because Of Him

 being easter sunday today, our sacrament program was based around that theme.

we had such great speakers and i learnt alot from all of them.

i have been having alot of inner struggles recently.

i have felt quite alone and lost.

i have prayed for comfort and for the strength to overcome these feelings of inadequacy.

today one of the speakers reminded me of a talk Elder Holland gave in a general conference.

i really needed to be reminded of this and i felt like it was an answer to my prayers.

"With all the conviction of my soul I testify that He did please His Father perfectly and that a perfect Father did not forsake His Son in that hour. Indeed, it is my personal belief that in all of Christ’s mortal ministry the Father may never have been closer to His Son than in these agonizing final moments of suffering. Nevertheless, that the supreme sacrifice of His Son might be as complete as it was voluntary and solitary, the Father briefly withdrew from Jesus the comfort of His Spirit, the support of His personal presence. It was required; indeed it was central to the significance of the Atonement, that this perfect Son who had never spoken ill nor done wrong nor touched an unclean thing had to know how the rest of humankind—us, all of us—would feel when we did commit such sins. For His Atonement to be infinite and eternal, He had to feel what it was like to die not only physically but spiritually, to sense what it was like to have the divine Spirit withdraw, leaving one feeling totally, abjectly, hopelessly alone." - Elder Jeffery Holland

i know that when i feel that i am alone, i am not.

for he is there, he is listening, he understands my heart ache and pain.

my brother, my friend, my saviour.

he died so that i may have the opportunity to repent of my wrong doings time after time and return back to heavenly father.

i will be forever grateful for the atonement of christ.

i will be forever grateful for jesus christ and for the ultimate sacrifice he performed for not only me but for everyone who will ever come upon this earth.

he truly loves each one of us unconditional and perfectly.

i am not very good with words but i know he lives, i know he loves me.

he is my lord, my saviour, my friend and my brother.