Sometimes we mistakenly believe God and Jesus already have everything, but they don't have you or me until we consciously give ourselves to them.
WOW--what a statement...
This article in the LDS Living this month is written by Brad Wilcox who is my all-time favorite person and author. I am going to give you "The 8 things the Atonement is Not" weekly for the next 8 weeks. Hope you enjoy learning what he has to say.
1. The Atonement is not just about immortality and eternal life but about not having one without the other.
Living forever may not be such a great gift without the possibility of living with God and loved ones. When my daughter Whitney was in elementary school, she read Tuck Everlasting---a wonderful novel that tells the story of a fictional family finding the fountain of youth, drinking, and then discovering that living forever is not all it's cracked up to be.
One night while I was putting Whitney to bed, she asked, "Dad, you know how you say because of Jesus we will live forever? Well, what if I don't want to?" What joy I felt as I was able to testify to my young daughter that immortality is only part of Jesus' great gift. It is coupled with the possibility of eternal families and eternal purposes!!
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