Doubt Not

You know what's funny? When you read about the Israelites coming out of Egypt and all the miracles they saw and yet their deliberate rebellion and disbelief and wickedness you're appalled and are so confused as to how they could POSSIBLY disbelieve in Christ and not trust Him that they CAN take over the city of their inheritance when He PARTED THE RED SEAS! And yet, here I am, COMPLETELY doubting Him that things will turn out ok. I doubt the future and am completely terrified of it altogether. I doubt so much....it's so awful....especially since I've seen SO many miracles! I think it's because I'll see miracles and then the miracles will seem to fall through, and so it seems like a fake miracle....like we'll miraculously get a new investigator but then the investigator will turn out to be schizophrenic or something and not "all there" or we'll commit someone for baptism at the VC but then we'll have the missionaries go by and now they're not interested.....fake miracles.......does that make sense? So I doubt.......I think for the first time in my life I KINDA relate to the Israelites......

And so........I doubt.....*sigh

I think laziness and doubt always have and always will be the biggest obstacles for me to climb. I just hope I can keep a steady climb up rather than sliding down.....

And yet, always and forever will one of my all-time favorite stories from the Book of Mormon be the story of the 2,000 stripling warriors. Where they told their captain that they would go into battle to defend their liberty despite their inexperience in fighting and despite the odds (Lamanites outnumbering them by the THOUSANDS). They said they'd go because they trusted in God and in the Savior because their mothers didn't doubt. So THEY didn't doubt.

Alma 56;48

Alma 57:26

I highly recommend reading the above verses.

Anyhoo, I think that's where CPR comes in....church, prayer, reading.....honestly, NO ONE can fall away from the church if they just do those things.......it's like how my grandma always says that the cure for everything is eating right, exercise and church. Well, it's true. And if you're reading the scriptures at least 1 verse every morning and saying a REAL prayer EVERY day and partaking  of the sacrament and going to your Sunday schools classes and being edified and taught you CAN'T lose your testimony and fall away...you just can't....you see too many miracles and receive too many blessings and life is just too good. Even when everything's falling apart.

In the scriptures every time a person had "exceeding faith" and saw Christ face to face and all these things, in the verses describing the occasion it almost ALWAYS says they doubted nothing. When Heavenly Father promises to give us abundant blessings He tells us we first need to have faith and doubt not.

I HAVE to doubt not.

Mormon 9:27

The above verse is my next quest to accomplish........

Anyhoo, this week has been interesting as I have had COUNTLESS "member fail" moments brought to my attention. Moments where members just really ruin the progression of someone else's salvation by saying stupid comments, or breaking promises, or being TERRIBLE examples, or just being mean. Never before have SO many eyes been on the members in this church and never before has there been a greater need for those members to step it up and do their prat in representing the Savior and His love. There are 15 MILLION members in this church. We need ALL of them! EVERYONE is important! Everyone has a role! Never think you're forgotten or not needed. Because if Heavenly Father didn't need you to be a member, He wouldn't have commanded it of "all men".

I love you all and I hope you're doing amazing! Work hard! Pray always!

Love,
Sister Bradley

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