Today I just have to write about the way our Father in Heaven loves and cares for each of us. Yesterday Andrew did our Family Home Evening lesson on our Father in Heaven. He asked the question how do we even know that there is a God? I read the scripture in Alma when Alma is speaking to Korihor, an anti-Christ and Korihor asks the same question.
Alma responds, "Thou hast had signs enough; will ye tempt your God? Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of aall these thy brethren, and also all the holy prophets? The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the bearth, and call things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its dmotion, yea, and also all the eplanets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator."
I then expounded a little on what that means. Each sunrise, each sunset, each plant and animal from the smallest to the largest living organism are testimony of the Living God. It saddens me to think that there are people who turn away from God because they feel that there is too much suffering in the world, yet this too means there is a God. He has given us the great gift of agency and even when we make poor choices, He loves us enough not to interfere. He loves us enough to suffer through the bad things we do to ourselves and others so that we may learn. How many people have turned towards Him as a result of true sorrow for the many sins they have committed? I would submit that all of us have to some extent or another. In His infinite mercy He also makes all things right in the end. Those who suffer innocently (meaning we have been wronged by someone else when we had no control) are blessed through the Atonement of Christ to overcome the effects of sin by another. How mighty are His ways! We cannot comprehend them, no mortal mind can.
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