THE THOUGHT

Prayer By Ziff

Yesterday in church, the topic was on prayer and how our prayers are answered not according to when or what we want, but when God wants us to have it and what God wants us to have. The point was raised that if we had all of our prayers answered all of the time, there would be no sorrow, no illness, no suffering. By not being allowed to experience those things, we wouldn't know happiness, well-being or the joys of redemption or the atonement. I sat there and pondered for a minute. I wondered if that is how Lucifer fell from grace in the sight of God. I imagine that Lucifer's plan was close to what God wanted. We know he wanted to make everyone return to God but he wasn't chosen to carry the burden that Jesus would have to bear because of his plan to remove agency from the plan of happiness. I am glad to know that I will experience earthly things according to Gods will and not my own. It brings joy to my soul to know that for every illness, pain, and suffering, I can over come those things and with help from God, truly experience happiness.