In the Hands of God

Life is full of trials and sometimes those trials seem so impossible and so insurmountable that all we want to do is quit. But we also know that there is something better on the other side, so we choose to keep going. I have seen this time and time again that there is always something better after some great trial.

So with this thought in mind, I read in the Book of Mormon, in the Book of Mormon (it's like Inception) and in Chapter 5, when Mormon is basically begging the people to believe in Christ, he says something deeply profound. "Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God?"

I think of the song "He's got the Whole World in His Hands" it has super repetitive words but, it has a good message:

1. He’s got the whole world in his hands.
He’s got the whole wide world in his hands.
He’s got the whole world in his hands.
He’s got the whole world in his hands. 
2. He’s got the wind and the rain in his hands.
He’s got the wind and the rain in his hands.
He’s got the wind and the rain in his hands.
He’s got the whole world in his hands.
 3. He’s got the little bitty baby in his hands.
He’s got the little bitty baby in his hands.
He’s got the little bitty baby in his hands. 
He’s got the whole world in his hands.
 4. He’s got you and me sister in his hands.
He’s got you and me sister in his hands.
He’s got you and me sister in his hands.
He’s got the whole world in his hands.
 5. He’s got ev’rybody in his hands.
He’s got ev’rybody in his hands.
He’s got ev’rybody in his hands.
He’s got the whole world in his hands.

We are truly in the hands of the Lord, and He knows exactly the trials and exactly the battles He Gives us. And because He knows us so perfectly, He knows just what we can handle. 

I have seen great miracles in my life come because of the trials I have faced. and I have seen miracles in the lives of others because they have been humbled by their trials.

I love Alma Chapter 26, it is literally the best chapter in the whole Book of Mormon. Ammon's words are truly profound, he says:

5 Behold, the field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the sickle, and did reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor; and behold the number of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not wasted.
6 Yea, they shall not be beaten down by the storm at the last day; yea, neither shall they be harrowed up by the whirlwinds; but when the storm cometh they shall be gathered together in their place, that the storm cannot penetrate to them; yea, neither shall they be driven with fierce winds whithersoever the enemy listeth to carry them.
7 But behold, they are in the hands of the Lord of the harvest, and they are his; and he will raise them up at the last day.

We are His children, and He will always be there to rescue us. I love the way Sister Rosemary Wixom put it, "Because you are His child, you not only need Him, but He also needs you." He needs us, and we need Him. What a powerful truth!

I love this opportunity I have to witness miracles because of the great love God has for His children!

All my love,

Sister Megan Monson