Christ Done for Me

 What has the Savior done for me?

My thoughts and notes from our Relief Society lesson today:

*He created this world that we live in.  There's so much beauty!  Flowers, rivers, lakes, mountains.  Stars, sun, planets.  Us.

3 Nephi 9:15

* Answers prayers.  He helps us.  He hears us!

*He grants comfort and strength.

*He gives us perspective.

*He died for us and was resurrected.  

President Oaks said, "The Resurrection gives us the perspective and the strength to endure the mortal challenges faced by each of us and those we love. It gives us a new way to view the physical, mental, or emotional deficiencies we have at birth or acquire during mortal life. It gives us the strength to endure sorrows, failures, and frustrations. Because each of us has an assured resurrection, we know that these mortal deficiencies and oppositions are only temporary.

The Resurrection also gives us a powerful incentive to keep the commandments of God during our mortal lives. When we rise from the dead and proceed to our prophesied Final Judgment, we want to have qualified for the choicest blessings promised to resurrected beings."

*Through Him, we can have eternal families!

*His enabling power....We can do more and be more with Him than we ever can be on our own.  He helps us be kinder, stronger, more forgiving, smarter, wiser, etc. than we are on our own. He can help us accomplish more than we can on our own.  I rely on this power nearly every day of my life.

*Sara (our sweet teacher) shared that a member of their stake presidency was driving his daughter and several other youth to the Vernal Temple (2 1/2 hours each way).  The member of the stake presidency fell asleep at the wheel and his daughter was impaled by a road sign...he was trained as emergency room surgeon and cared for her.  She lost her leg, but she survived.  Sara said that she learned so much from this family about the Atonement...the young woman suffered a great deal of pain but she had such a strong testimony and she told me that she prayed all the time to give her strength.  She is doing great and has recovered, but she set such a great example of demonstrating faith.  Her dad felt such guilt and pain for causing this harm to his daughter.  He carried this pain for awhile but it was amazing to watch the change that came as he learned to forgive himself and used the Atonement to find peace.

*He rescues us, despite our selfishness, rebellion, sin, pride, and so on.  He heals those who cause pain and those who experience pain.  He forgives our sins and helps us overcome weakness.

*He gives us peace.  When the world is in commotion, we can still find peace.  We can find peace in the temple, in the scriptures, through prayer, through music, etc.

*He helps us overcome burdens and lightens burdens:

Mosiah 24:

"13 And it ^acame to pass that the voice of the Lord came to them in their afflictions, saying: Lift up your heads and be of good comfort, for I know of the covenant which ye have made unto me; and I will covenant with my people and deliver them out of bondage.

14 And I will also ease the ^aburdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as ^bwitnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their ^cafflictions.

15 And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did ^astrengthen them that they could bear up their ^bburdens with ease, and they did submit."

*taught us the plan of salvation, taught us the commandments and covenants, He was the ultimate teacher!

2 Nephi 26:24-28  "He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world."

*enters into covenant with us!

*promises to be by our side, to go on our right hand and left, to be in our forward and rear and to send His angels to be round about us.

*His atonement is for ALL.  (2 Nephi 26:24-28)

*He lived a perfect life.  He is the ultimate exemplar.

*He loves me.  Love is the motivation of all He has done.

"We love what we sacrifice for.  And we sacrifice for what we love."