Thursday, January 28, 2021

Painful things happen even to the pure and the perfect....pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn't love you....

However dim our days may seem, they have been a lot darker for the Savior of the world. As a reminder of those days, Jesus has chosen, even in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, to retain for the benefit of His disciples the wounds in His hands and in His feet and in His side—signs, if you will, that painful things happen even to the pure and the perfect; signs, if you will, that pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn’t love you….It is the wounded Christ who is the Captain of our souls, He who yet bears the scars of our forgiveness…These wounds are the principal way we are to recognize Him when He comes.  --Jeffrey R Holland

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