• Day 55
    • Principle: Along with forgiveness the Atonement provides grace through enabling power.  
    • Read: 2 Nephi 16:1 - 17:25
      •  In 2 Nephi 16:5 Isaiah expresses doubt because of his sins and shortcomings.  By what power does Isaiah overcome these concerns?  What evidences of the enabling power of Christ's atonement do you see in these verses? 
    • Neal A. Maxwell said:

      • “When the agony came in its fulness, it was so much, much worse than even He with his unique intellect had ever imagined! …

        “The cumulative weight of all mortal sins—past, present, and future—pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11–12; Isa. 53:3–5; Matt. 8:17.) …

        “… His suffering—as it were, enormity multiplied by infinity—evoked His later soul-cry on the cross, and it was a cry of forsakenness. (See Matt. 27:46.)” (“Willing to Submit,” Ensign, May 1985, 72–73).

    • David A. Bednar taught:
      • “The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us. There is no physical pain, no anguish of soul, no suffering of spirit, no infirmity or weakness that you or I ever experience during our mortal journey that the Savior did not experience first. You and I in a moment of weakness may cry out, ‘No one understands. No one knows.’ No human being, perhaps, knows. But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He felt and bore our burdens before we ever did. And because He paid the ultimate price and bore that burden, He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm of mercy in so many phases of our life. He can reach out, touch, succor … and strengthen us to be more than we could ever be and help us to do that which we could never do through relying only upon our own power” (“The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality,”Ensign, Apr. 2012, 47).
      • Alma also taught about what Christ would endure in  Alma 7:11–13.
    • As you consider the prevous quotes and verses.  Read the following scriptures and complete the following sentence
    • What additional blessings stood out to you about the atonement of Jesus Christ?
      • What does the enabling power of Jesus mean to you?
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