God's Perfect Love Casteth Out All Fear
How living the Gospel of Love can give us peace of conscience.
Notice anything different?! I made an audio version of my post!! - where I go on a little bit of an extra tangent (spoken things not on my written version), but I promise it’s on topic, haha. I really enjoyed making this and I hope you enjoy it too! This audio file will also be uploaded to podcast platforms soon! I was thinking of just creating a podcast tab here, but it’s weird because I just wanted it to stay in my actual written post so I picked what felt best. To my creative audio-lovers, here you go. (‘:
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Good morning everyone 🌿 ✨
I wanted to share something that has been clinging in my thoughts from studying our Come Follow Me—and it’s the Mosiah 7: 33.
I’ve been in such a rut recently. I just feel anxious. Almost always. From waking up and then maybe I’m okay during the day/afternoon, but before I go to bed the anxiousness visits again. For what seemed like such a long time, I couldn’t pinpoint why I was feeling this way.
I kept praying in my heart, feeling frustrated and hopeless,
and I read Mosiah.
33 But if ye will aturn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all bdiligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.
As a recovering perfectionist, my body gets anxious from time to time as a Christian. Even from the smallest things like not doing things the way I’d like to, my body measures those deeds to my worthiness. It’s the most exhausting thing ever. And I’ve talked about this before in another post about experiencing performance anxiety in the gospel (go check it out if you want!).
But a wonderful brother in our Sunday school told us how God does not gift us the gospel through the lens of a calculator, but a compass. My husband and I discussed this concept together and we started to talk about how it’s essential to remember that God desires for us to live the gospel intentionally—to learn again and again that it’s about having a real, genuine relationship with our Father in Heaven.
I believe the Jesus Christ is our compass. He can be our merciful ultimate guide in our mortal journey, if we let Him. We can confidently trust that He can fill our hearts with His peace in His personal purpose for us, if we turn to Him.
A friend shared to me once about how young elephants are trained in a circus environment. These young elephants would have one of the legs chained until they’re adults. Because these elephants know they couldn’t get out when they were younger, they still think it’s the same way when they’re older—and so they don’t try to escape anymore (even if they’re bigger and have the obvious physical strength to get out of the chains).1
Jesus Christ has the power to break our chains of all our anxieties. In fact, He already has through His Atonement.
God did not gift us the gospel to train and perform in a circus like tortured, miserable elephants. Shame and dwelling in guilt was never the fruit of His tree.
Our Father in Heaven, gave us His Son, Jesus Christ, to be our light and strength—to try and live His gospel in the lens of love, hope, and compassion. He gave His gospel because He knows we’ll make mistakes and we will struggle from inward and outward infirmities and afflictions.2
My hope is that because God gave us His commandments and teachings of His gospel, we can remember that these are signs and symbols from a Father who wants to always have His Spirit to be with us. A Father who wants to have a relationship with us. A relationship we can nurture it through our covenants with Him.
No matter where or who we are. No matter how complicated everything seem to be.
We can live the gospel with peace of conscience because of His love.
Because God is love! 💛
3 And it came to pass that after they had spoken these words the Spirit of the Lord came upon them, and they were filled with joy, having received a aremission of their sins, and having peace of bconscience, because of the exceeding cfaith which they had in Jesus Christ who should come, according to the dwords which king Benjamin had spoken unto them.