It Will Be Worth It

It is often easy to wonder if it’s all worth it, if everything we have to go through matters. In 3 Nephi 22:7-8 it says, “For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee…I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee.” To me this means that our experience on earth is when God hides His face from us. While we’re here we’re not with Him like we used to be. But He will have mercy on us and let us come back to Him. Sometimes on this earth it will be hard, it will feel like God has forsaken us, like we are completely alone, and like it’s not worth it. But this separation is only for a “small moment,” it is nothing in the grand scheme of things. There is so much more in store for us. If we will follow the Lord, His face will never really be hidden from us. And as a result of our earthly experience and through his mercy, we can receive blessings beyond our comprehension. The wife of my bishop once said in a Sunday school lesson, that when you are kneeling across the altar from your eternal spouse, you will never regret anything you had to do to be there. Likewise, when we are blessed with eternal salvation, we will see that everything from our life mattered and that it was worth all of the horrible and painful things we had to go through to get there.  The Savior never told us it would be easy, He only told us it would be worth it.