Day 145-Atonement Insights

Elder Cecil Samuelson Jr also stated, "His Atonement does indeed cover the world and all people from the beginning to the end. Let us not forget, however, that in its comprehensiveness and completeness it is also intensely personal and uniquely crafted to fit perfectly and address perfectly each of our own individual circumstances. The Father and the Son know each of us better than we know ourselves and have prepared an Atonement for us that is fully congruent with our needs, challenges, and possibilities."

It is interesting to think how the Atonement is individually constructed for each of us. We vary in needs allowing the Atonement to encompass all degrees and levels of circumstances and challenges. It is amazing to me how hand crafted the Atonement is in each of our own lives.

Day 128- Atonement Insights

The Purifying Power of the Gethsemame by Elder Bruce Mckonkie is one of the most powerful talks on the atonement.

Day 78-Atonement Insights

In the Book of Mormon, Alma taught Zeezrom that “if thou believest in the redemption of Christ thou canst be healed” (Alma 15:8). We likewise can be healed of tragedy, wounded hearts, misunderstanding, hatred, sins, frailties, prejudices—whatever afflicts us—if we believe and look to our Savior and His Atonement.

It is “the pleasing word of God . . . which healeth the wounded soul” (Jacob 2:8), and it is “with his stripes [that] we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5; Mosiah 14:5). This miraculous heavenly healing, Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi of the Seventy explains, is magnificent, profound, and beautiful.

Read “The Healer’s Art,” by Elder Kikuchi, in the March 2011 Ensign or Liahona.

As I read this article, I thought of the importance of faith in relation to the atonement. We can be healed through the atonement if we have faith. The healing only occurs through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. To have faith is to have confidence in something or someone or to hope for things which are not seen. Faith is a principle of action. It is interesting that both faith and the atonement require work. "Faith is dead without works"(James 2:20) and you can also state the atonement without works is dead. The doctrines of faith and atonement work hand in hand and one is not without the other.

Day 65- Atonement Insight

"This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today."
--Lance B. Wickman, "Today", Ensign, May 2008, 103–5

Day 59- Atonement Insight

11For the ^alife of the ^bflesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it isthe ^cblood that maketh an ^datonement for the soul.

Adam and Eve were instructed that “the life of the flesh is in the blood: … for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” We would not have life without blood. We have been given life through the atonement of Jesus Christ that we might live. We are able to be purified and made whole through Him.