Where Justice, Love, and Mercy Meet

Where Justice, Love, and Mercy Meet
Jeffrey R. Holland
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(remember I am using the "language of faith" meaning I am wording the counsel and teaching "as if" I already believe or am already doing it. All bold type is my insertion.)

•  I will ALWAYS remember that "brotherly hands and determined arms" reach into the abyss of death to save me from my fallings and my failings, from my sorrows and my sins.
• Like lightening in a summer storm, He grasps me as I fall,holds me with His might, and through my obedience to His commandments, lifts me to eternal life. 
• I express gratitude for the Atonement and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• I acknowledge events in the divine plan of God that led up to and give meaning to "the love Jesus offers me".
• I cannot fully comprehend the Atonement and Resurrection of Christ and do not adequately appreciate the unique purpose of His birth of His death, without understanding there is an actual Adam and Even who fell from an actual Eden, with all the consequences that fall carried.
• I know Adam and Eve were created under the divine hand of God, lived alone in a paradisaical setting with no death or children until, through a sequence of choices they transgressed a commandment which required they leave the garden but allowed them to have children before physical death.
• The fall had spiritual consequences. It cut them off from the presence of God forever.
• I am under the same penalties they faced - permanent death and eternal anguish, were it not for the Savior.
• All things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things.
• The entire sequence of the Fall was designed for our eternal happiness and is part of God's divine plan, which provided for a Savior to come and atone for the first Adam's transgression; achieve complete victory over physical death and unconditionally grant resurrection to all, and forgiveness for the personal sins of all, conditioned upon repentance and obedience to divine commandments.
• Christ was resurrected under his own power of of His own volition.
• The Atonement and Resurrection constitutes the most consequential moment, the most generous gift, the most excruciating pain, the most majestic manifestation of pure love ever to be demonstrated in the history of this world.
• I express gratitude for the Savior and His Father who gave Him to us. I am grateful that He still stands triumphant over death and that He still extends unending grace.
• I know that justice, love, and mercy meet in harmony in the Savior's perfect atonement. It is great, glorious, and complete. It is Redemption's grand design.
  
  
  General Conference Challenge:

• Always remember Christ saves me from my fallings, failings, fears, sorrows and sins and discouragement through repentance and my obedience to His commandments 
• Always express gratitude for the Atonement and Resurrection; grace, justice, love, and mercy 
• Acknowledge the events of the Fall and their role in the Divine Plan 
• Continue to learn about and appreciate more fully, the Atonement of Christ