Thou are not yet as Job

Yesterday was Chelsea and Rob's Wedding which I was at all day. It was wonderful and by the time I got home I was too tired from so much fun to find a quote and blog.

I was planning on blogging this morning but I couldn't decide what my quote should be, there are so many good Sunday quotes and I wanted to use one that meant a lot to me. I decided I would go to church and listen for anything that stuck out. It was testimony meeting so there was the potential of many different subjects. Nothing really stuck out in Sacrament Meeting or Sunday School but I got to Relief Society and the teacher had chosen to talk about growing from trials. If there is a spiritual topic that I have chosen to study a lot it is how the Lord helps us through trials. She got most of her material from a CES Fireside given by Jeffrey R. Holland titled Lessons from Liberty Jail. During different difficult times in my life I have read this talk over and over, I had a copy of it in my journal for a long time, it is definitely one of my favorites. The following is one of my favorite excerpts from the talk.

"In giving us this sober reminder of what the Savior went through, the revelation from Liberty Jail records, 'The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?' (D&C 122:8). No, Joseph was not greater than the Savior, and neither are we. And when we promise to follow the Savior, to walk in His footsteps, and be His disciples, we are promising to go where that divine path leads us. And the path of salvation has always led one way or another through Gethsemane. So if the Savior faced such injustices and discouragements, such persecutions, unrighteousness, and suffering, we cannot expect that we are not going to face some of that if we still intend to call ourselves His true disciples and faithful followers." -Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

I love my Savior, and His eternal sacrifices for me. It is helpful for me to look at my trials as a way I become more like him. Recently I had an experience and it came to me just how much pain the Savior went through. I was recalling the pain I went through before I had the surgery to remove my tumor and blockage of cerebral spinal fluid, from what I have gathered is one of the more painful things to occur(I was in less pain after surgery than I was before and it wasn't just because of the Morphine), as I pondered this and the other pain I had I realized, it hit me that what I experienced was no where near what the Savior voluntarily went through for me. It had brought me comfort that he had felt my pain in order to succor me but I hadn't really thought about all the different pain he had at once. I am truly grateful for His love for me.