SELF-CONFIDENCE

 

“It is not just the mistake-free, no-fault life that pleases God. He has deliberately placed us in a sphere where the most sharply focused purpose is to learn from our experience and to grow in both our desires and our understanding to be like Him.

“Obviously that includes the greatest effort and integrity we can must as we seek to do His will. But the heart of it all is not SELF-confidence. It is confidence in HIM, and in His power to make us into creatures far beyond the reach of what our goal-setting and goal-achieving can ultimately accomplish in the process of becoming as He is.

“Through the power of the Atonement, the Saviour himself compensates ultimately for our inadequacies, even as He leads us along and strengthens our capacity for good. For that reason HE is the desired repository of our confidence.  To repose our confidence in ourselves rather than in Him is to trust in the arm of flesh…..”

-          Elder Bruce C. Hafen, “The Broken Heart”  p 120,121

 

When in heaven we meet,

Will you want my soul to keep?

 

Will I be worthy of forgiveness,

And a loving word from Thee?

I will kneel and I will weep when I witness

How graciously You accept

So little You find in me.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Within Our Grasp by Jay Bryant Ward)