Even with the trails of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and His grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.
Agency is essential to the plan of happiness.
It allows for the love, sacrifice, personal growth, and experience necessary for our eternal progression.
This agency also allows for all the pain and suffering we experience in mortality, even when caused by things we do not understand and the devastating evil choices of others.
The very War in Heaven was waged over our moral agency and is essential to understanding the Savior's earthly ministry.
President Joseph F. Smith taught, "There never can come to the world that spirit of peace and love...until mankind will receive God's truth and God's message...,and acknowledge his power and authority which is divine."
We earnestly hope and pray for universal peace, but it is as individuals and families that we achieve the kind of peace that is the promised reward of righteousness. This peace is a promised gift of the Savior's mission and atoning sacrifice.
President John Taylor taught that peace is not only desirable, but "it is the gift of God."
The peace to which I am referring is not just a temporary tranquility. It is an abiding deep happiness and spiritual contentment.
President Heber J. Grant described the Savior's peace this way: " His peace will ease our suffering, bind up our broken hearts, blot out our hates, engender in our breasts a love of fellow men that will suffuse our souls with calm and happiness."
Peace comes from knowing that the Savior knows who we are and knows that we have faith in Him, love him, and keep His commandments, even and especially amid life's devastating trails and tragedies.
The Savior is the source of true peace. Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and His grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.
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