Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that through service and faith, we can receive spiritual strength beyond our limits.
Henry B. Eyring's quote highlights the transformative power of serving others in alignment with divine principles. It suggests that when we stretch ourselves in our service to God and others, we are granted increased spiritual strength through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, allowing us to handle our responsibilities and challenges with greater ease. This ability to endure and uplift not only fulfills our obligations but also transforms our very nature, enabling us to bear even more than we thought we could.
In practice
During a church service, a leader might share this quote to inspire members to engage more in community service.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.
Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
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