The other day I read the familiar story of Christ healing the blind man found in John chapter 9. I began to think how amazing it is that this man who once could not see now could. I began to think how this story could relate to my life.
As we see, when Christ was out with His disciples they came to a man who was blind.They asked if this man had sinned, or his parents, to cause this man to be born blind? Christ answered their question when he said, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
Then Christ put clay on his eyes and told him to go and wash in a pool of water. And as he did it says "He...washed, and came seeing. "
As we take this lesson into our lives, we see that as we go through trials and hard times it is not because we have done something wrong, but that the Lord help us become the type of person He knows we can be. Trials that happen in our lives are there to help us and others come closer to Christ. But when we start to think "why me?" or " why must I go through this?", that is when we need to turn to Christ and ask him to touch our eyes. He may anointed our eyes with the clay (humility), and ask us to go and wash (cleans ourselves in the atonement).
As we see in this video of the trials Joseph Smith that great things came from him enduring.
As we learn to look at our trials as chances to grow we can benefit more then ever. I know that trials are never fun, but they are the way we can become stronger and grow closer to Christ. :)
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