Just some thoughts from my morning scripture reading.
My friends and I have all fallen victim to a mental and emotional weight that can give us reason to reduce our commitment.
The righteous in the Book of Mormon received the same temptation. The wicked planned a day when they would destroy the righteous. They made fun of those who believed in the signs of the birth of Christ: a full day, night then a day that when the brightness would only be as one day.
"And they began to rejoice over their brethren, saying: Behold the time is past, and the words of Samuel are not fulfilled; therefore your joy and your faith concerning this thing hath been in vain" (3 Nephi 1:6).
I find myself thinking that the time has passed for a job application to be accepted - that's my current thoughts. Another friend is scared that he will never find someone to marry - he's only in his early twenties. And yet many of my friends have similar fears - understandable. But it's not in God's ways to let these doubts stay and grow.
"...and the people who believed began to be very sorrowful, lest by any means those things which had been spoken might not come to pass. But behold, they did watch steadfastly for that day and that night and that day which should be as one day as if there were not night, that they might know that their faith had not been in vain" (3 Nephi 1:7).
If we can wait in cheerfulness, then we can do it better than the righteous in this story. Granted, the righteous did have more struggles that your average struggle. But the reward feels and is greater when we invest more faith in the wait!
"Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed" (D&C 123:17).
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