“Every [person] eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and
there … must make his stand.” -President Ezra Taft Benson
President Thomas S. Monson, in October 2013 General Conference, said, "Our Heavenly Father, who gives
us so much to delight in, also knows that we learn and grow and
become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we
must pass. We know that there are times when we will experience
heartbreaking sorrow, when we will grieve, and when we may be tested
to our limits. However, such difficulties allow us to change for the
better, to rebuild our lives in the way our Heavenly Father teaches
us, and to become something different from what we were—better than
we were, more understanding than we were, more empathetic than we
were, with stronger testimonies than we had before.
"This should be our purpose—to persevere and endure, yes, but also to become more spiritually refined as we make our way through sunshine and sorrow. Were it not for challenges to overcome and problems to solve, we would remain much as we are, with little or no progress toward our goal of eternal life. The poet expressed much the same thought in these words:
"This should be our purpose—to persevere and endure, yes, but also to become more spiritually refined as we make our way through sunshine and sorrow. Were it not for challenges to overcome and problems to solve, we would remain much as we are, with little or no progress toward our goal of eternal life. The poet expressed much the same thought in these words:
"'Good timber does not grow with ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length.
The more the storm, the more the
strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
(Poem by Douglas Malloch, “Good Timber,” in Sterling W. Sill, Making the Most of Yourself (1971), 23.)
If the Way be
Full of Trial
by William H. Flaville
If the way be full
of trial, weary not;
If it’s one of
sore denial, weary not;
If it now be one
of weeping,
There will come a
joyous greeting,
When the harvest
we are reaping, weary not.
Chorus:
Do not weary by
the way,
Whatever be thy
lot;
There awaits a
brighter day,
To all, to all who
weary not.
If the way be one
of sorrow, weary not;
Happier will be
the morrow, weary not.
Here we suffer
tribulation;
Here we must
endure temptation;
But there’ll
come a great salvation. Weary not.
Chorus:
Do not weary by
the way,
Whatever be thy
lot;
There awaits a
brighter day,
To all, to all who
weary not.
If misfortunes
overtake us, weary not;
Jesus never will
forsake us, weary not.
He will leave us
never, never;
From his love
there’s naught can sever;
Glory to the Lamb
forever, weary not.
Chorus:
Do not weary by
the way,
Whatever be thy
lot;
There awaits a
brighter day,
To all, to all who
weary not.
“Each time you choose to try to live more like the Savior, you will have your testimony strengthened. You will come in time to know for yourself that He is the Light of the World." -President Henry B. Eyring
