"Ye Shall One Day Rest"

This week in the Book of Mormon I read Alma 34:41 and it really stood out to me. It says, "But that ye have patience, and bear with those afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions." When I see something that says you need to have patience I am quickly reminded of the fact that I have very little. I usually think of patience in terms of being patient with people, but this scripture made me look at it in a different way. I think it is so easy to become frustrated with the situations that we are in, easy to think that everything is going wrong and nothing will ever go right. In the midst of a trial it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This scripture is both empowering and comforting to me. It reminds me that I need to keep working my hardest in this crazy thing called life, but that there is such an incredible reward at the end. Life is hard. There are so many trials and heartaches and distractions that can keep us from seeing that all these things are temporary, that there is an end to them. But as this scripture says, we need to have a firm, unshakable hope that one day we will no longer suffer, that one day all of our pains will go away. If we will patiently bear our afflictions we receive eternal life, and there is no greater blessing that we could receive. After all, “he never said it would be easy, he only said it would be worth it” (Anonymous).