Easter Thoughts

 EASTER THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST

If the savior stood beside me

Would I do the things I do?

Would I think of his commandments and try harder to be true?

Would I follow his example?

Would I live more righteously if I could see the savior standing nigh

Watching over me?

If the savior stood beside me

Would I say the things I say?

Would my words be true and kind if he were never far away?

Would I try to share the gospel?

Would I speak more reverently if I could see the savior standing nigh

Watching over me?

If the savior stood beside me, would my thoughts be clean and pure?

Would his presence give me strength and hope and courage to endure?

Would his counsel guide my actions?

Would I choose more worthily if I could see the savior standing nigh

Watching over me?

He is always near me, though I do not see him there

And because he loves me dearly

I am in his watchful care

So I'll be the kind of person that I know I'd like to be

If I could see the savior standing nigh watching over me

So I'll be the kind of person that I know I'd like to be

If I could see the Savior standing nigh watching over me

Ever since I first heard this song as a young child at church, I've always loved it. What a beautiful thought to imagine the Savior standing nigh right by our side. If he were there, how would I act? How would I treat other people?

D&C 29:5

5 Lift up your hearts and be ^aglad, for I am in your ^bmidst, and am your ^cadvocate with the Father; and it is his good will to give you the ^dkingdom.

D&C 38:7

7 But behold, verily, verily, I say unto you that mine ^aeyes are upon you. I am in your ^bmidst and ye cannot ^csee me;

Here's an interesting thought—what if Christ really is in our midst in a very real sense, but we just can't see him? What a comforting and inspiring thought that is. 

One thing we do know is that the ministering of angels is a real thing. I do believe angels are around us, even if we don't always see them. 

Here are a few things I love:

The Ministry of Angels (Talk by Elder Holland)

This poem by Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar:

Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our home:

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

Shades of the prison-house begin to close

Upon the growing Boy,

But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,

He sees it in his joy;

The Youth, who daily farther from the east

Must travel, still is Nature’s Priest,

And by the vision splendid

Is on his way attended;

At length the Man perceives it die away,

And fade into the light of common day.

"Trailing clouds of glory." What a wonderful phrase. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience. May we always remember that Jesus Christ is there. He lives. He loves us. He died for us. He wants to help us in ANYTHING that we are struggling with whether it be a crisis of faith, an illness, heartache, or just difficult times. He is there to succor us. He knows us perfectly. He knows us intimately. I know that's hard to feel at times because we can't see him. If we make the effort to go to him, to cry out to Him in prayer, I know he will answer. He does require us to work. Life is hard. Finding Christ isn't always easy. But it is so worth it.