The Lord’s Help Is Enough

“Following the Savior will not remove all of your trials,” President Dieter F. Uchtdorf taught. “However, it will remove the barriers between you and the help your Heavenly Father wants to give you. God will be with you.” Hard times come for us all. It's up to us if we want to face them on our own or with the divine aid of our loving Heavenly Father. The stripling warriors' unshakeable faith and obedience did not prevent each of them from receiving many wounds as they fought for their families and their religion and their liberty, but it did allow the Lord to miraculously preserve them, battle after battle, so that not a single one of them was lost. Joseph Smith's faith and obedience did not keep him out of Liberty Jail, but it did allow the Lord to bless him and anyone who has ever read them with some of the most profound and meaningful revelations the prophet would receive in his entire life. Joseph of Egypt's faithfulness may not have prevented him from being sold into slavery or thrown into prison, but the Lord was so clearly with Joseph through every trial that his captors allowed him more liberty in his captivity than he would have had as a free man. The people of Alma's faith could not prevent the Lamanites from laying upon their backs heavy burdens to bear, but it did allow the Lord to ease those burdens so that they were so light that they could not feel them. In the examples I have given, the degree to which the Lord helped differed in each example. But I know completely that whether the help from the Lord seems big or small, it is much better than trying to do it with no help at all.