Insight Number 7

Name: Erin Christina Elliott Rel. 122 Section: 25 Word Count: 593 Date: February 2, 2009
1) What is the reference of the insight?
Alma 57:26
2) What principle or doctrine is taught?
Believing in God
3) What message for improvement is taught?
As they believed in God they were protected. God has much and great power that he uses at his will. As they believe in God, God is with them and watches over and will make sure they do not parish. `The teaching is that God is a just God, and who does not doubt him and believes in him they will be watched over and preserved by his marvelous power.
4) How can I apply this principle, doctrine, or message in my life?
Most of the times when things start to go wrong in my life; it is because I have begun to fall into a pattern of doing things that are not in according to what the Lord wants me to be doing. I need to work on always remembering my God and following his commandments and the things the daughter of God that I am should be doing. I believe it was in my last insight that I shared a little bit about my brother and I, and how I had lost part of my faith. My world has been in a mess since because I still sat here questioning things about my testimony. I was doing what I was supposed to be doing but I still questioned. I was up until 4:30 in the morning on Sunday reading talks and articles about eternal families looking for those answers to about my dad and my brother, and well; I could not find the ones I was looking for. I just kept reading about the family and how they are forever and how they are one of the keys to celestial glory. I was extremely tired and my eyes heavy from crying and I passed out. I awoke a few hours later and as I was getting ready for church I went on and on about not having an answer and not getting it, it just dose not work for me. It was fast Sunday and I was fasting to understand the question on eternal families. (I hate to say it but my questions weren’t answered.) I was sitting in sacrament meeting and started tearing up. As the meeting went on it was harder and harder to hold back. By the time the sacrament was being passed I was bawling. I was overwhelmed by the spirit and reading my piratical blessing where it mentions eternal families 3 or 4 times and the things it says about them, I was shaking, for I knew that families are eternal, though my question about my dad and brother were not answered, I know what I read that morning is true and I know that families really are forever, and it is a blessing that I have been promised and get to enjoy, so though I don’t understand the basics of it, somehow I KNOW with all my heart that families are eternal. It all just seemed to come together for me at that point. I have a fair and just God; he knows me and loves me. I know that he is there for me and is watching out for me and guiding me. I just have to keep a consent mind to not be taken away from what I know and to always be believing in him and I know that I will never fall against the advisory because my God is ever watching out for me.