Choose Ye Today

The Lord works from the inside out . The world  works  from the outside in. The world would take people  out  of the slums. Christ takes the slums  out  of people, and then they take themselves  out  of the slums.

It’s a term I would often hear growing up. Facing your trials with faith. I don’t know that I was able at such a young age to wrap my head fully around that. As I have grown older, I have come to appreciate the phrase in my life. As we face trials with a trust in God and His bigger plan for us, we come to know and understand His plan better, which in turn increases our faith that He is there and that He loves us. When I think about faith, an obvious example from the Book of Mormon is Nephi. I began to grasp fully what it meant for him to leave his home and go out into the unknown as I left for my mission. Nephi was faced with so many trials and hardships that it would have been easy to give up and ask why these things were happening to him. But he chose instead to remain faithful and to rely on God’s promised blessings to him. As a young missionary, I began to love reading about Nephi because I found so many similarities between our circumstances. Nephi ultimately shows his faith ...