Faith to Wait
"Waiting on the Lord" Elder Jeffery R. Holland, October 2020 General Conference Elder Holland said “we are not the first nor will we be the last to ask such questions when sorrows bear down on us or an ache in our heart goes on and on...” “...but there will be times in our lives when even our best spiritual efforts and earnest, pleading prayers do not yield the victories for which we have yearned...” “...But sooner or later we learn that the times and seasons of our mortal journey are His {God’s} and his alone to direct.” “The point? The point is that faith means trusting God in good times and bad, even if that includes some suffering until we see his arm revealed in our behalf. That can be difficult in our modern world when many have come to believe that the highest good in life is to avoid all suffering. that no one should ever anguish over anything. But that belief will never lead us to the measure of the stature of the ...