Patience

During the last week I was in conversation with a couple of different friends about personal frustrations.  Sometimes it seems that we dont ever progress.   We are stuck in this hole with no way out.  You analyze your situation and you try to figure out what is going wrong - but you dont make any discoveries.  The frustration continues and you wonder when it will ever end? After talking about this with these friends, and much personal reflection I was reading my scriptures on my way to school and came across this scripture. 

"For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great 

mercies will I gather thee.  In a little wrath I hid my face

from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness

will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer."

As I read that scripture I was greatly touched.  Though at this moment I could quite possibly be in this "small moment of forsakenness", I felt the peace that soon this moment will be complete.  Even though at this time in my life I feel weary and alone, someone, Jesus, is watching out for me, and in his time I will be gathered in again.

At the top of my scriptures is written this passage:

Sometimes we feel forsaken by God, but it's the final test

for us to stand on our feet in loyalty to our God.

I do not remember writing this in my scriptures.  I do not know if it is something that I thought at one time, or if it is a quote from someone else.  But in its simpleness it is quite profound. I was reminded that life is a process that is taken day by day.  We move along this pathway of life from level to level.  Maybe I am at a point in my life where I am ready to move to the next level, and this is the trial and tribulation that I must pass through to prove myself worthy for greater things?  Maybe it's just a simple trial of my faith for God to see where I will place it?  In man and myself, or in Him?  

Whatever it is, I have found comfort in this scripture.  I am where I should be, doing the things that I am supposed to be doing.  Even though I am in the midst of some trial that I am struggling to understand, there is a wonderful truth that I have been reminded of. 

"Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have

overcome the world, and you are of them that my

Father hath given me;  And none of them that my

Father hath given me shall be lost.  And the Father

and I are one.  I am in the Father and the Father in

me; and inasmuch as ye have received me, ye are in me

and I in you.  Wherefore, I am in your midst, and I am

the good shepherd and the stone of Israel.  He that 

buildeth upon this rock shall never fall.  And the day

cometh that you shall hear my voice and see me, and know 

that I am.  Watch, therefore, that ye may be ready.  Even so.

Amen."