"And they did rejoice and cry again with one voice, saying: May the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, protect this people in righteousness, so long as they shall call on the name of their God for protection."
3 Nephi 4:30
Things don't always happen the way we want, and there are a lot of lessons in life that we don't want to learn, and pain that we don't want to go through. I like though, this verse and the whole idea that through it all, God is there to protect us. The same general idea as Nephi's "I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." (1 Nephi 3:7). We're here to be tested and to learn, but despite the trials, God is still watching over us, and if we ask for help, he will give it. Some things in life are not easy, for certain, but the Lord is there, helping us and guiding us, and protecting us as long as we are working our way towards him. If we walk away from him and choose our own trouble, then, like the prodigal son, we may fall into bad situations, but he is there instantly to welcome us home when we turn back to him. Let's trust and have faith in God rather than dismissing the miracles in our lives as coincidence. Let's pray, and ask, and listen, and love. God will help us, and lift us so that we can also help others. Let's be part of the good, and when it gets hard, let's ask for the protection that God promises.
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