Saturday, July 30, 2011

A Spiritual perscription

This last week I have battling being sick and trying to get everything done that was necessary. It was no fun. No one likes being sick. To overcome it though what do we do?  We take medicine. We eat different things and drink lots of liquids. We rest our bodies. We go to the doctor, so on and so forth. Everyone knows the routine. Everyone has gone through it one time or another in their life. By doing these things we hope that our bodies will heal and get right back to normal so we can move on. But even though these moments of pain and sickness drive us low they in turn bring us higher and build us stronger.
So how is it that we deal with Spiritual sickness? Just like being physically sick there are things that we can do that will help our spirits bounce back and become stronger then before. So what are these steps?
Prayer. sometimes Fasting. Reading the scriptures, The Book of Mormon and the Bible. We must go to Church, at one of His Churches.  Follow Gods commandments, The 10 commandments, the Law of Chastity and the Word of Wisdom. Listen to council from the Prophets, and many other things. Sometimes we have a spiritual sickness that lasts longer then a few days, sometimes it lasts a long time. When this is the case we much search and ponder out what we need to change in order to "bounce back." I know the more we align our lifes in harmony with how God has asked us to live, we will feel that spiritual sickness disappear. He has given us a way to live. A specific way and we must follow this way. Only by living this way are we truly happy. In some cases we dont know that we are suffering spiritual sickness. But as we live by His way I know that we will recognize something was missing. This is the persciption to overcome spiritual sickness. Let us all turn to Jesus Christ in our deepest and hardest times. He is there for us. He went through it so we know whom to turn to. He is waiting with open arms to heal us of our sickness, whatever it may be.
Faith in Jesus Christ
"11And he shall go forth, suffering pains and aafflictions and btemptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will ctake upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.
 12And he will take upon him adeath, that he may bloose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to csuccor his people according to their infirmities." Alma 7: 11-12

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