Feeling at Home

I feel like at some point I did read this whole talk, but I get these nice little 'LDS Nuggets' in my email every day. Often I read them, and delete. Today I just felt like I had to share, and since I *just* updated my facebook status (and it's a pretty long quote) Welcome to my blog :) (there's a good one in the works, fyi...) But I love this quote and I love the way Brad Wilcox is able to make the gosple a little more understandable for me.

"The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can go home but that—miraculously—we can feel at home there. If Christ did not require faith and repentance, then there would be no desire to change. Think of your friends and family members who have chosen to live without faith and without repentance. They don’t want to change. They are not trying to abandon sin and become comfortable with God. Rather, they are trying to abandon God and become comfortable with sin. If Jesus did not require covenants and bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost, then there would be no way to change. We would be left forever with only willpower, with no access to His power. If Jesus did not require endurance to the end, then there would be no internalization of those changes over time. They would forever be surface and cosmetic rather than sinking inside us and becoming part of us—part of who we are."

--Brad Wilcox, "His Grace Is Sufficient", BYU Devotional  July 12,  2011