To Have Hope...

During Sunday school, I was handed this quote to read to the class. I really love it. It is simple truth that your soul can embrace with:

"If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and His restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and His teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right." President Howard W. Hunter (Teachings of H.W.H., p. 40)

This is just so true! It is a good reminder, that helps one better prioritize things.

One of the quotes that I have kept close this year is focused on hope.

"Hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill His promises to you. It is manifest in confidence, optimism, enthusiasm, and patient perseverance. It is believing and expecting that something will occur. When you have hope, you work through trials and difficulties with the confidence and assurance that all things will work together for your good. Hope helps you conquer discouragement. The scriptures often describe hope in Jesus Christ as the assurance that you will inherit eternal life in the celestial kingdom." (Preach My Gospel, p. 117)

The Lord does and will keep His promises if you are but faithful. So the combination to success must be #1 Focus your life on Jesus Christ & #2 Have hope. If you can but due those two things all will work together for your good, even if in the moment it does not feel that way. For then you are sure to trust in the Lord.

Never forget Jeremiah 17:1, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is."

I always want to be one that the Lord can have His hope in.