Every Trial and Experience is Necessary for Your Salvation

Well. Facebook Memories brought me this timely quote by Brigham Young. I Googled it to see the context and know more about it. So, here's a little more, quoted from Discourses of Brigham Young pages 345-347. This helps me personally, but also helps me feel more encouraged about those I know who have suffered so much and for so long.

 

"Now if you possess the light of the Holy Spirit, you can see clearly that trials in the flesh are actually necessary.

 

"We are now in a day of trial to prove ourselves worthy or unworthy of the life which is to come.

"… Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

 

"If the Saints could realize things as they are when they are called to pass through trials, and to suffer what they call sacrifices, they would acknowledge them to be the greatest blessings that could be bestowed upon them. But put them in possession of true principles and true enjoyments, without the opposite, and they could not know enjoyment, they could not realize happiness. They could not tell light from darkness, because they have no knowledge of darkness and consequently are destitute of a realizing sense of light. If they should not taste the bitter, how could they realize the sweet? They could not.

 

"We are the happiest people when we have what are called trials; for then the Spirit of God is more abundantly bestowed upon the faithful."

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-brigham-young/chapter-35