"Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on." ~Yann Martel
Reading this makes me feel a small sense of relief...but more than that sense of relief, it brings a realization that my best bet, so to speak, in enduring successfully to the end, will be in getting to know my Savior...not just what He did in His life, but also coming to the understanding that He was indeed a man and was met with temptation, as I am. By His choices he was made perfect. And though perfection is not a goal that I can expect in this life...it is still something that I should expect.
Christ suffered the chains of mortality, but did not wallow in his plight. He walked His chosen path and fulfilled His earthly and divine ministries. And so should I...so should we all.
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