Have you ever felt like you had a target on your back? Like the Adversery was using you for fiery dart target practice? Do you ever feel like " mighty winds" or "shafts in the whirlwinds" or "all his hail and mighty storms"are beating down upon you?
What can you do when you feel like that? If you build upon that rock writen about in Hel 5, It just says you'll weather the storm, it doesn't say you'll see fluffy bunnies and feel comfy coasy, just that you'll weather it.
Nephi says the key to fiery darts is the word of God. What about those times when you redouble your efforts to "hold to the rod" and are digging into the word of God and read your scriptures, and then you just feel that fiery dart practice gets doubled too?
There are two more scriptures on fiery darts, One in the passage to Joseph Smith after he had lost the 180 pages. It says in D & C 3 that if you are faithful, God will extend his arm and support you against all the fiery darts of the advesary, and in D&C 27 we read that its the sheild of faith that quenches these darts.
None of these say you wont feel any of the heat, basically you will survive it, and be less injured by it. Here is where I randomly throw in some Pink lyrics.
"where there is disire there is gonna be a flame, when there is a flame then you're gonna get burned. Just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. you gotta get up and try, try try."
obviously the less you expose yourself to the fiery dart, the less its gonna burn, but sometimes that sheild of faith gets a little heated up. Don't drop it, hold on. you're not gonna die, because as long as you are holding on to that shield, God wil extend his arm and support you against those fiery darts.
Sometimes life just feels like you are on the wrong end of target practice. It does that. Its important to know that you can survive, and how to survive when it does.
There are two scriptures about when people were depressed and about ready to give up.
Ammon and his bretheren on their missions:
"now when our hearts were depressed and we were about to turn back, behold the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy bretheren the Lamanites and bear with patience thine afflictions and i will give unto you success."
and When Helemans armies came just in time for some very battle weary Nephite soldiers :
" yea and they were depressed in body as well as in spirit, for they had fought valiantly by day and toiled by night to maintain their citties; and thus they had suffered great afflictions of every kind. And they were determined to conquer in this place or die; therefore you may well suppose that this little force which I brought with m, yea, those sons of mine, gave them great hopes and much joy.
Sometimes, Gods hand is directly seen swatting off those arrows for us, and sometimes, he sends in a little band of angels to give us great hopes and much joy. You are still going to have to tough out the battle, but if you trust him, you wont die from it.
I think, out of everyone I know, there are a lot of us feeling like target practice. I'm gonna get all Michael McClean on you right now.... Hold on, the light will come. Keep fighting. I think I've seen this talk quoted many times as well from Elder Holland: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1999/10/an-high-priest-of-good-things-to-come?lang=eng or the shorter mormon messages version https://www.lds.org/church/good-things-to-come?lang=eng
It was given, for fiery dart kind of days. So if you are having one, read it, watch it. and "“Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead.” Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ,they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come."
You can't become a great sword without a forgers fier. You can't become a tasty cake without and oven and some heat, you can't become what God wants you to without weathering some crazy storms and some fiery dart attacks, but He is the master sword maker guy, he is greater than a master chef or a top chef, or a top chef master, and he wont let you burn as a cake. That temperature is going to get hot, but he wont over do it, just remember what you are becoming.
What can you do when you feel like that? If you build upon that rock writen about in Hel 5, It just says you'll weather the storm, it doesn't say you'll see fluffy bunnies and feel comfy coasy, just that you'll weather it.
Nephi says the key to fiery darts is the word of God. What about those times when you redouble your efforts to "hold to the rod" and are digging into the word of God and read your scriptures, and then you just feel that fiery dart practice gets doubled too?
There are two more scriptures on fiery darts, One in the passage to Joseph Smith after he had lost the 180 pages. It says in D & C 3 that if you are faithful, God will extend his arm and support you against all the fiery darts of the advesary, and in D&C 27 we read that its the sheild of faith that quenches these darts.
None of these say you wont feel any of the heat, basically you will survive it, and be less injured by it. Here is where I randomly throw in some Pink lyrics.
"where there is disire there is gonna be a flame, when there is a flame then you're gonna get burned. Just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. you gotta get up and try, try try."
obviously the less you expose yourself to the fiery dart, the less its gonna burn, but sometimes that sheild of faith gets a little heated up. Don't drop it, hold on. you're not gonna die, because as long as you are holding on to that shield, God wil extend his arm and support you against those fiery darts.
Sometimes life just feels like you are on the wrong end of target practice. It does that. Its important to know that you can survive, and how to survive when it does.
There are two scriptures about when people were depressed and about ready to give up.
Ammon and his bretheren on their missions:
"now when our hearts were depressed and we were about to turn back, behold the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy bretheren the Lamanites and bear with patience thine afflictions and i will give unto you success."
and When Helemans armies came just in time for some very battle weary Nephite soldiers :
" yea and they were depressed in body as well as in spirit, for they had fought valiantly by day and toiled by night to maintain their citties; and thus they had suffered great afflictions of every kind. And they were determined to conquer in this place or die; therefore you may well suppose that this little force which I brought with m, yea, those sons of mine, gave them great hopes and much joy.
Sometimes, Gods hand is directly seen swatting off those arrows for us, and sometimes, he sends in a little band of angels to give us great hopes and much joy. You are still going to have to tough out the battle, but if you trust him, you wont die from it.
I think, out of everyone I know, there are a lot of us feeling like target practice. I'm gonna get all Michael McClean on you right now.... Hold on, the light will come. Keep fighting. I think I've seen this talk quoted many times as well from Elder Holland: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1999/10/an-high-priest-of-good-things-to-come?lang=eng or the shorter mormon messages version https://www.lds.org/church/good-things-to-come?lang=eng
It was given, for fiery dart kind of days. So if you are having one, read it, watch it. and "“Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead.” Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ,they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come."
You can't become a great sword without a forgers fier. You can't become a tasty cake without and oven and some heat, you can't become what God wants you to without weathering some crazy storms and some fiery dart attacks, but He is the master sword maker guy, he is greater than a master chef or a top chef, or a top chef master, and he wont let you burn as a cake. That temperature is going to get hot, but he wont over do it, just remember what you are becoming.
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