A Moment More of Difficulty

“To exercise faith is to trust that the Lord knows what He is doing with you and that He can accomplish it for your eternal good even though you cannot understand how He can possibly do it. … When you pass through trials for His purposes, as you trust Him, exercise faith in Him, He will help you. That support will generally come step by step, a portion at a time. While you are passing through each phase, the pain and difficulty that comes from being enlarged will continue. If all matters were immediately resolved at your first petition, you could not grow. Your Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son love you perfectly. They would not require you to experience a moment more of difficulty than is absolutely needed for your personal benefit or for that of those you love.” -- Elder Richard G. Scott, Trust in the Lord, October 1995 General Conference

I love this quote.  It's an oldie but a goodie.  Mortality is hard. In fact, mortality is a mess.  When we get discouraged with life and with our trials, this is a good quote to recall.  To know that we should exercise faith and put our trust in the Lord because in his infinite wisdom, He understands what we are going through and why we are going through it much better than us.

The trials of mortality are for our benefit to help us grow and progress towards becoming more like our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.  Like Elder Scott says, They love us perfectly.

I love the last line, it's worth repeating.  "They would not require you to experience a moment more of difficulty than is absolutely needed for your personal benefit or for that of those you love."

So when your trials seem unbearable, remember that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ would not require us to go through a moment more of difficulty than is absolutely necessary for our benefit or for the benefit of our loved ones.  This knowledge is what gets me through the hard times of mortality.

That's my two cents.