In my scripture study this week, I was reading in the Book of Mosiah, found in the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. One verse that has always stuck out to me struck me even more this time. In Mosiah 3:17, it states: " For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man, and becometh as a saint through the atonement of Christ, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things that the Lord seeketh to inflict upon him..." (Mosiah 3:19). As I was reading this scripture, I realized that most of the attributes that it encourages us to develop have to do with the amount of trust we have in God and our willingness to do His will instead of ours.
I have found in my life that it can be difficult to trust that everything will be okay and to "submit" to the will of others, especially when we don't understand why we are asked to do something or why something difficult is happening in our lives. Naturally, we want to do what makes sense to us, we want to be in control, and we want to understand something before we act on it. However, this scripture shows us that as we become willing to listen to the voice of the Holy Ghost - to act on those feelings we have to do something good or to serve God, Christ can help us to come to know Him and to know that He has our best interests at heart. Through acting on these promptings and receiving the Atonement in our lives, we can see the evidence of Christ's love in our life and will want to change to better submit to His will. He can change us, but only as we learn to "yield" and to choose to trust in His voice.
