Reading Neal A. Maxwell quotes on the Atonement. This one strikes me - "Can we, even in the depths of disease, tell Him anything at all about suffering? In ways we cannot comprehend, our sicknesses and infirmities were borne by Him even before they were borne by us. The very weight of our combined sins caused Him to descend below all. We have never been, nor will we be, in the depths such as He had known. Thus His atonement made perfect His empathy and His mercy and His capacity to succor us, for which we can be everlastingly grateful as He tutors us in our trials. There was no ram in the thicket at Calvary to spare Him, this Friend of Abraham and Isaac." Then a powerful quote by CS Lewis (a favor author of Elder Maxwells) reminds us of the purpose of this great sacrifice - "Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always has existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has -- by what I call "good infection." Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else." (Mere Christianity)
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:59:25 +0000
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