This life is full of trials and challenges. They may be big or small, self-inflicted or the consequences of others' decisions, but no one is immune to them. When faced with such challenges, we have a choice. We can respond with faith, trust, patience, and long-suffering, turning to God or we can become bitter, frustrated, disloyal, and turn away from God. Now, even if you respond in a positive way that does not mean that you aren't going to have hard days or that you won't shed some tears or that you'll feel ok about it all the time. But the Lord has promised us many blessings if we simply endure.
In the sixth chapter of John, Christ is giving his living bread sermon. He is trying to teach the people that just as he fed them temporally, he can also feed them spiritually so that they may have eternal life. This conversation did not go over so well and the scriptures tell us that many of his disciples left him. In the next verse:
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
I absolutely love these verses!! I was thinking about how regardless of any trial I have gone through, I have never questioned my testimony. My first thought was never to abandon the things that I know to be true. Of course I have gone through times when I wasn't as willing to reach out to Heavenly Father, but never have I wanted to leave the church or turn away from the principles of the gospel. Jesus Christ is the one true way to return to our Father and in a world of shifting values and temptation, the only way that we can be safe and find any sort of peace and happiness in this life is by following Him. Our lives won't be perfect, our trials won't go away, but he can strengthen and uplift us during them as we continue on our upward journey back home.
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