I am getting ready to go to my mothers retreat and I have these writing assignments that I have to do. One that I worked on tonight is on faith and as I started writing this is what I came up with.
The things that we do or act upon, weather hard or not will tell us what we have faith in.
For example: If we pay tithing then we have the the faith that God will do as He has promised that the "windows of heaven will pour you out a blessing that you will not have room enough to receive it." Mal. chapter 3:10
If you attend the temple on a regular basis and you have the faith that making, keeping, and renewing those covenants will bless your lives.
So how do we increase our faith? I believe then acting upon those promptings and commandments even when it is hard will help our faith to grow.
To have our faith grow we have to let go of what we think we know and rely on what the Lord tells us we should do. Even if the world or your knowledge tells you other wise. We have to know that the Lord will not lead us down paths that will make our lives harder. He wants us to grow closer to Him and He will lead us to Him if we can just start acting on our promptings and His commandments.
I hope that this makes sense as it is almost midnight.
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He will take us down paths that are harder because this is how we grow and become like him. Look at the lives of most of the prophets in the scriptures, if they had not followed God's path for them, their lives could have been much easier. I think of it this way, the harder life gets the more He trusts us to handle it. This is not to say that we won't have peace or rest, just that our peace and rest won't depend on the easiness of the way.
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