Helaman 13

(May 17, 2014)
We understand that each of us, to receive a fullness of joy, must become perfect.  That means, axiomatically, that we will be required to change (and to change in painful ways) in order to receive that blessed reward.  Why, then, are we so very reluctant to change?  Why do we want our preachers to preach comfortable doctrine to us?  Our appreciation for those in positions of stewardship over us should come from the answer to one question – does their leadership help me to change for the better? – and, if so, we should be grateful regardless of whatever else might happen.

Of course, this is easier to say than to live.  And it is equally applicable to the events and circumstances of our lives.  It is one thing to say that we want to be perfect, but another to suffer through reverses of fortune and heartache that might be necessary to bring that perfection about.  We pray to be more like the Father, then quake at the painful process of repentance and beg the Lord to remove the very burdens off our shoulders that are forming us into the perfect beings He wants us to be.