Happy Easter yesterday, everyone! :)
Hope you had a wonderful time with family & friends, and I hope you had
some time to reflect on the Savior's life, example, & sacrifice for us
during this Easter season.
This week, I would like to share with you some scriptures relating to
Easter:
John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Isaiah 53:3-7
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and
carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes
we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought
as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth.
Alma 7:11-13
11 And he shall go forth,
suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the
word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the
sicknesses of his people.
12 And he will take upon him death, that he may
loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their
infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh,
that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to
their infirmities.
13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son
of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of
his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power
of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.
Mosiah 16:6-9
6 And now if Christ had not come into the world,
speaking of things to come as though they had already come, there could have
been no redemption.
7 And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have
broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory, and that death
should have no sting, there could have been no resurrection.
8 But there is a
resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is
swallowed up in Christ.
9 He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a
light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is
endless, that there can be no more death.
I testify that Jesus Christ lives and that he is the Savior of the world.
I know His Atonement (suffering, death, & Resurrection) is real, & that
through faith in Him & His Atonement, we can overcome anything in life. I
know that our Heavenly Father & Jesus Christ love all of us & know each
& every one of us. I say this in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Have an awesome week!
Be strong & faithful because the Lord is!
~Sister San Diego