Brother Dan Widdison
Elders Quorum President
Allen Hanie of the Seventy gave a talk about repentance and how we all need this great principal in our lives. He tells the story of when he was a boy he and his friends dug a hole, filled it with water and used it as a swimming pool. Of course they were muddy from top to bottom. He ran home to get warm but his grandmother would not let him in the house. She said you are dirty and you cannot enter. She washed him off with the garden hose, pronounced him clean and told him to enter. So it is in life. We all get dirty with sin of some kind but the Lord said no unclean thing can enter the kingdom of God. We need the principal of repentance and the Atonement.
Elder Hanie continued:
I testify that the Savior will never turn away from us when we humbly seek Him in order to repent; will never consider us to be a lost cause; will never say, “Oh no, not you again”; will never reject us because of a failure to understand how hard it is to avoid sin. He understands it all perfectly, including the sense of sorrow, shame, and frustration that is the inevitable consequence of sin.
Repentance is real and it works. It is not a fictional experience or the product “of a frenzied mind.”17 It has the power to lift burdens and replace them with hope. It can lead to a mighty change of heart that results in our having “no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually.”18 Repentance, of necessity, is not easy. Things of eternal significance rarely are. But the result is worth it. As President Boyd K. Packer testified in his last address to the Seventy of the Church: “The thought is this: the Atonement leaves no tracks, no traces. What it fixes is fixed. … The Atonement leaves no traces, no tracks. It just heals, and what it heals stays healed.”
Repentance and the Atonement are real principals that we must use in our lives on a daily bases. I testify in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen
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