Faith To Be Healed

In my Book of Mormon, there is a certain chapter that has fallen apart from the binding.  This chapter has fallen out because it has been read so much.  3 Nephi 17:8 states “I see that your faith is sufficient that I should heal you”.  This powerful phrase gives me SO much hope, excitement, and motivation!  I have faith that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are able to and will (in their own timing) heal all of us from all of our infirmities.  I have faith that we need to trust God and Jesus and to have faith in their timing. 

            Often times, it can be very easy to have a perfect plan in our minds and to tell God exactly how, when, why, where, etc. we want him to help us.  And more often than not our plan for ourselves does not match up exactly with what God has in store for us.  This is because God intends something much better than expected for all of us than what we can ever imagine for ourselves.  During the hard times it is important to remind ourselves of that.

            3 Nephi chapter 17 applies to all of God’s children because he is the light of the world for everyone.  There is no place of darkness that he cannot reach.  There is nothing that God cannot fix, heal, mend, or repair.  Nothing is impossible for God.  Whatever you are facing, face it with hope and rely on the Lord because with him you will make it through.  It is my joy and my testimony that God loves to help us in the best of times and in the worst of times.  I have seen this countless times in my own life.  In conclusion, 3 Nephi 17:6 states that Jesus Christ’s “bowels are filled with compassion” I know that he literally feels and aches for us.  He is filled with as much compassion and love for us that is possible.  Jesus Christ is filled with and eternal capacity to love and help us.