What if I wasn't afraid to fail? Would I be more willing to try something new, set a goal that seems unattainable, or reach out to someone new. In other words, would I be more likely to become the person God is trying to mold me to be?
I am learning that the greater the chance of me failing completely, the greater the potential blessings. For example, I was willing to be married, even though I knew we would have challenges and the chance we would fail. I took the chance to have children, be true to the gospel of Jesus Christ, make covenants, homeschool my children, move to a new place, start a new business, change careers, etc. With the chance of failure comes learning, growth, an increased reliance on the Lord, and the potential to succeed! Lehi put it this way in 2 Ne 2:11, "For it must needs be that there is an opposition in all things."
I am so grateful that Adam and Eve were willing to partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, knowing that they would then be able to die. They had such courage and faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement to be willing to fall, so that we could be here to learn from our failures.
Elder Richard G. Scott talked about this principle in his Oct 2014 conference talk. He said, "We were taught in the premortal world that our purpose in coming here is to be tested, tried, and stretched." (I love the way he said stretched, it sounded to me that he has some experience with that principle.)
Happy stretching!
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