On Christmas Day...
Posted on 8:47 AM by Elder Bergloff
12:00 A.M. in the morning. I woke up to a terrible stomach ache. Just a couple hours before I had been happily eating and playing games. Now I felt like someone had just thrown a brick into my stomach. The stomach ache quickly progressed to nausea leaving me in the bathroom looking at the leftovers of the dinner. AKA a lot of vomiting. The whole experience, of basically losing my dinner and what felt like all the dinners I had eaten that week, left me exhausted and I ended up missing church the next day. Instead I ended up sleeping from noon that day to 6:30 the next morning. During this whole process, however I was able to do a lot of praying. I remember asking God to heal me, to take away the pain. As I said this my thoughts were turned to Christ who in the Garden of Gethsemane also asked His Father to take away the pain and discomfort.
Mark Chapter 14: 35. And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
36. And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cupfrom me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
As I thought on these things I thought of all the pain that He must have felt to truly take upon himself the sins of the world.
11. And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and
the sicknesses of his people.
Perhaps God sometimes allows us to feel a smigion of what His son felt as He was in that Garden and as He hung on the cross.
I believe with all my heart that God does love us and is there with us when we suffer and are in pain.
I love this poem because I think it truly shows our Saviors love for us and His role in our lives when we struggle.
1 comments:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Elder. I hope you are feeling better. Happy New Year!
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