"Then will I make weak things strong unto them."

OK, I'm finally getting around to my blogging. Actually, I don't really know what to post about, so you're going to have to endure some random "thinking out loud." Sorry...

Have you ever had one of those weeks were everything seems dull and sort pointless? Well for me last week was one of those. I didn't seem to get excited about anything, and I had no energy. I also felt like I was distancing myself from Heavenly Father. Not really because of what I was doing, more because of what I wasn't. In seminary we talked about how you are always either losing or gaining light (the light of Christ), due to little simple choices that you hardly even notice. I have been losing more than I've been gaining lately I think. Not really depressing, but It was making me gloomy. I knew that that was the problem though, so I decided to fix it.

And this week I think I came close to doing that, I think, though there is always room for improvement. I read something about how if we are humble and have faith, the Lord will turn our weaknesses to strengths. I thought that sounded like just the thing I needed. Sometimes it gets so frustrating to be human. We make mistakes, and those distance us from God. You can't not make mistakes, because of Adams fall we are all subject to them. But we can try and do everything possible to make as little as possible, and stay close to God, and keep the Holy Ghost with us. And I think the only way to do that is to submit to God, have faith and humility. Trust that you are better off in His hands than going on alone. And He will make weak things strong.

I've been praying for that to happen. And i can tell you, it's amazing to take a step back and realize it really does happen! How great is our God! He can make a flawed and sinful human being into an instrument through which so much can be accomplished! Through Christ, even I can be made perfect, and bring more glory to Him through it. How great is my God, and marvelous His works!

I have been getting a surprising amount of things accomplished, and I think many goals that I have been working at for a long time will soon be finished and ready to make way for new ones.

Dallin H. Oaks~
The idea that our strengths can become our weaknesses could be understood to imply that we should have “moderation in all things.” But the Savior said that if we are “lukewarm,” he “will spew [us] out of [his] mouth” Through the prophet Moroni, the Lord gave us this great insight into the role of humility: “I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them”