Five Scriptures (Steve)

Five scriptures I love and that have meant a lot to me. With brief commentary. Read them below.

1.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
And I will bring them...to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick.
-Ezekiel 34: 11-16

God is never far from us. Wherever we go, he personally seeks after us, just as we seek after him.


2.
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
 -John 9: 39-41

If we think we see, we have no faith. We need to admit that we know almost nothing, and trust God to lead us on.


3.
And thus they were driven forth; and no monster of the sea could break them, neither whale that could mar them; and they did have light continually, whether it was above the water or under the water.  
-Ether 6: 10

No matter what chaos is crashing around us, we carry a divine light within us which makes night day.



4.
My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.

-Doctrine and Covenants 121:7-9

Life is painful, but pain is growth. And if we're lucky, we'll have warm hearts and friendly hands to help us along the way. Either way, we can always trust that God is there and that the hole the hurt carves into us will always be too small to contain the joy that eventually comes to fill it up.

5.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-Romans 8: 38-39

It's impossible to move outside of the sphere of God's love.