We often think that having faith in Christ means believing in his identity as the Son of God and the Savior of the world. But believing in Jesus's identity as the Christ is on the first half of it. The other half is believing in his ability, his power to save- to make stumbling, unworthy sons and daughters worthy... We must not only believe IN Christ, but we must also BELIEVE Christ when he says he can clean us up and make us celestial.
He says he can MAKE us celestial material, no matter where we start, and we have the audacity to sit here and say ,"No he can't? I'm too broken? I am too far gone?" We may believe in Christ, but many of us don't BELIEVE CHRIST. We believe Christ makes promises he can't keep.
Many within the church are trying to save ourselves, to do it all with Jesus Christ merely as an advisor. But he wants to do so much more than that!!! Members know why Jesus can be called a coach, a cheerleader, an advisor, a teacher, our elder brother, the head of the church, and even God. Most of us understand all of that. But we don't understand why he is called the Savoir.
When we enter into the baptismal covenant, by taking Christ's name upon us, it is like our soul's our entering a "joint soul bank account" with Christ. Christ's balance in his bank account is ALWAYS positive Infinity. He earned that positively endless balance by performing the Infinite atonement. Thus, by joining our "soul account" with his, no matter what WE DO, as long as we try to keep the terms of the agreement, our balance is the same as his- making us perfect. Each week we come to resign that contract by taking the sacrament. Some weeks, we may have feel that we have over drafted, we fell short of our covenants, messed up, made mistakes, and made the balance go negative. But Infinity plus any number... 0, 2 million, negative 5, or even if we feel like we have hit negative infinity.... Infinity plus any number, positive or negative, is always infinity.
That means whether you are the prophet and you feel you put in 1,000,000 a week to the "Joint account of your soul & Christ" --Infinity . Whether you try your best to wrestle with sin and slip up but covenant to try to do better each week- still infinity. Or even if you are an addict who has been authorized to take the sacrament for the first time in months or years...The moment we take the sacrament and TRULY enter into that covenant with a promise to do are best, we all join our account with Christ. We ALL become equal to the lord. Because when we have Christ we can do ANYTHING. No matter how little you feel you can bring to Christ, if you will let him enter, HE (not we) will make us celestial.
I want to gain a stronger testimony of Jesus Christ as my Savoir. I know he has saved my from many things, pain, sadness, sin, but I know there are many things that he has also saved me from that I haven't discovered yet. I believe in Christ when he can save me from my personal weaknesses too, and need to be better at BELIEVING Christ that he can save and help me with WHATEVER I need.
