My 40 day Walk with God Answer to Day 1. Activity for Day 2

The request was to: Read the Living Christ: Ponder your personal testimony of our Savior. During the next40 days, how would you like your testimony to grow. I posted a link too.



I thought this would be an easy assignment but it turns out it wasn't. I have a strong testimony of Christ and thinking how I want to strengthen that more is not so easy. Why you may wonder but I want SO much more its difficult to pinpoint just What that is. I want to have an even MORE Personal relationship with him, I want to Understand the whys of what he is guiding me to do and the HOW. I have the faith that this will happen, Id love to be able to see with my physical eyes him there, I know he is there spiritually and would love to be able to see that more. Feel him more, be able to converse and understand what he is telling me easier than I currently do. I love him and know hes there for me, not just some omnipotent spirit, my brother Jesus.
I guess it just boils down to I want a better relationship with Christ and hope it will grow magnificently on our walk together.

Day 2: (My answer will be posted tomorrow)

The Plan of Salvation
"Young Women Value Experiences and Projects."Young Women Personal Progress: Standing As a Witness of God, 11-14

Increase your understanding of the plan of salvation. Resources for study include 2 Nephi 9:1-28 2 Nephi 11: 4-7 Moses 4:1-4 Revelation 12: 7-9 D&C 76:50-113 D&C 93: 33-34 Abraham 3: 24-27 and 1 Corinthians 15:22
Draw or obtain a picture that depicts the plan of salvation, including the premortal existence, birth, mortal life, Death, Judgment, and life after judgment.

Using this picture, explain the plan of salvation to your family or friends in a Family Home Evening. Discuss how knowledge of the plan affects your actions.

Those of my friends who are not LDS wont be able to access the full YWPP area but the link does give you a lot of information.

Atonement

I will preface this post with, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints.

I went to Church today. Sacrament meeting was good, one of our young men got his call to Bolivia he leaves the first part of January. In Sunday school we talked about Zachariah and the second coming. In Relief Society the lesson was on the Atonement and how having a better understanding of it will help us to live a full and better life. It was a good lesson. During it I was asked, by the Relief Society President, how the Atonement had helped me though this year. I replied that it had made it easier. That sounds so simple but really it is just that simple. Let me explain, and Im long winded but here goes.

Knowing that Jesus, a perfect being, came to earth to atone for sin, so that through repentance we can return to a loving Heavenly Father and live with him is an amazing gift. Now MY understanding of the Atonement is 2 fold. I don't lump it together as a single thing. I know there's a lot there, but for ME..
Christs atonement broken down: First off, the law of Justice must be satisfied in order for the law of Mercy to kick in. (Mercy can NOT rob Justice) Lets look at Adam and Eve, they were removed from the presence of God physically and brought Physical death to the world causing sin to become part of the world which means to me that the wages of sin is DEATH. When Christ came he paid Death for Death, it was a gift, so through his GRACE we are resurrected, the good, the bad, everyone, IT is the GIFT he gave us. But it is through MERCY, that Christ has Earned the right to intercede on our behalf so that we will be able to become the Sons and Daughters of God and DWELL with him. That part is conditional on OUR doing our part which is to repent and strive to be like Him through that, repentance and humility, we are able to enact Christ's Mercy in our lives.
The additional part which I consider the cream or great big Chocolate bar is Eternal Life. We tend to view Immortality and Eternal life as one but as I have studied I have come to the conclusion that its not. We will all, through Grace, be immortal but to gain Eternal life and BE like God takes more. There will be many who read this who will scratch their heads and say " shes nuts" that's OK.

It is the ETERNAL aspect of the Atonement that I just LOVE! Being LDS I have what I feel is a extra safety net that many others don't. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. It helps to back up the scriptures and makes them much more understandable. Along with personal study of other apocryphal texts and works I continue to be enriched. My husband and I were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple for Time and ALL ETERNITY. Just words to some but to us, me, they mean I will get to be with him again, he is still my husband. Just because he passed through the veil and went on his great trip, to me, doesn't mean he no longer exists or has no part in my life. It is a comfort to me, and I feel of his presence. To know that we can be together forever with our children, parents, grandparents, grand children and ALL of our family IF we do what WE are supposed to do is amazing knowledge. This is an INDIVIDUAL choice we must EACH make it is not a blanket magic wand "poof" you get to be a God or Goddess.

I get angry, upset, frustrated, annoyed, and every emotion you can think of but I DO go back to the knowledge, and yes it is a KNOWING, that I WILL see him again and he is waiting for me, he is helping me out in every way he can so I can be with him too, because I KNOW he loved me with every fiber of his being. That helps a lot.

SO I guess that is one of the reasons my husbands death is not totally debilitating to me, I can not tell you the people who said to me or give me looks like, your insane, why aren't you more sad, gee didn't you love your husband? and Believe me I have had them. I just KNOW things they don't, or if they do know them they don't understand them.

All in all it was a good day at Church and will be a nice day at home, we are having Ham for dinner with all the goodies from yesterday thrown in.