The Beauty of Easter Sunday

It was, indeed, a beautiful Easter Sunday. The fact that we were both asked to speak in Sacrament Meeting had given us an opportunity to focus intently on the real, spiritual meaning of Easter for the entire week. Without knowing what each other was speaking on, we both shaped our messages around using the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives. We focused on four aspects of the atonement (grace):

1. Through grace every person born will be resurrected
2. This grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to enjoy eternal life
3. Through grace we can repent of our sins and receive strength to do good works
4. Grace is the divine means of help or strength during trials, sorrows, afflictions and adversity to do what we are literally unable to do on our own

Most people are pretty clear about the first aspect of the atonement - that they will be resurrected, or live again after they die - somehow, somewhere. The second aspect is a bit less clear, or maybe completely unknown. It allows that we have the opportunity to live as families and progress eternally - conditional on our righteous choices in mortality.

The first two aspects of the atonement are realized once we pass from this life. The next two points are to help us here and now - in this life.

The third aspect of the atonement enables us to repent and become better people through faith in Jesus Christ. The fourth aspect is perhaps the least understood, and therefore, the least utilized of all. It is an enabling power that we can, through our faith in the Savior, use "to make us more than we are" against all kinds of struggles. We can literally receive peace, strength, comfort, direction, help and companionship from the Lord through His atonement - here and now. Those blessings await us by calling on Him in mighty prayer.

The Easter message is beautiful and we should be celebrated all year.

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