He Learned How To Succor Us By The Things He Suffered

I shared this with a friend in a letter and he suggested I keep this in my journal.

I have a few different journals I keep. This one seemed the most appropriate.

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I've run into other members who are offended at the suggestion that Christ could learn something. "How dare you suggest that He doesn't/didn't know EVERYTHING already."

But Alma 7 seems to say exactly this.



It even says he "grew from grace to grace" as He approached His ministry.


I don't find this offensive. I find it comforting. And in my "talks" with Him, when I feel His words in my mind and do my best to record them -- I do not feel He is somehow "diminished" because He came down here and learned about my struggles by taking my sins upon Himself, by ( I suspect ) stepping out of time and space and quite literally living my life moment to moment as I have and do - so that He understands what it means to be Tom, even better than I do.

As my faith in Him grows, so does the invitation to "let go" and trust Him. To trust Him with more of myself. To be more honest with Him. To rely upon Him more. And to realize that He is willing...that He WILL .... deal in this exact same loving patient manner with my wife and with each of my children as they come unto Him -- it is not utterable how this pleases me. I feel that growing in this realization is the beginning of Charity within me. As I realize how much I am worth to Him, through experience not just theory, then by extrapolation, my wife and children are no different. All are invited, none are excluded.

This loss of self is intimidating to me. It is both inviting and terrifying. But the pull of it is full of love. I think, if I keep coming back, I can give a little bit more each time. He is so good. I feel from Him that He waits for me to give a little bit more.