LESSON FROM LIBERTY JAIL #2

 

Even the Worthy Will Suffer –

 “When we promise to follow the Saviour, 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 Saviour faced injustices and discouragements, 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. And it certainly underscores the fact that the righteous – in the Saviour’s case, the personification of righteousness – can be totally worthy before God and still suffer.”

-          Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “Lessons From Liberty Jail”, BYU Speeches, 7 Sept 2008

 

I was tempted my burdens

To lay to Your charge;

I considered them acutely unfair.

Then you opened my heart

And showed me Your godly task,

Beyond human capacity to bear.

 

Knowing where you had gone

I would never have to go,

I sorrowed and sought

My arrogance to bury;

In humility I assent,

Your mortal burden,

So valiant, so holy,

I would never in this life

Have to carry.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Gethsemane by Danny Hahlbohm)