Fighting through darkness and despair

Get thee hence, Satan; deceive me not.

God's grace is sufficient! 

Be led out of bondage by power, and with a stretched-out arm.

Therefore, let not your hearts faint
Mine angel shall go up before you
and also my presence,
and in time ye shall possess the goodly land

What goodly land? Your goodly land. Your promised land. Your New Jerusalem. Your own little acre flowing with milk and honey. Your future. Your dreams. Your destiny. I believe that in our own individual ways, God takes us to the grove or the mountain or the temple and there shows us the wonder of what his plan is for us. We may not see it as fully as Moses or Nephi or the brother of Jared did, but we see as much as we need to see in order to know the Lord's will for us and to know that he loves us beyond mortal comprehension. I also believe that the adversary and his pinched, calculating little minions try to oppose such experiences and then try to darken them after the fact.

Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 

Hebrews 10:35–36

I acknowledge the reality of opposition and adversity, but I bear witness of the God of Glory, of the redeeming Son of God, of light and hope and a bright future. I promise you that God lives and loves you, each one of you, and that he has set bounds and limits to the opposing powers of darkness. I testify that Jesus is the Christ, the victor over death and hell and the fallen one who schemes there.

"Fear ye not." And when the second and the third and the fourth blows come, "Fear ye not the Lord shall fight for you." "Cast not away therefore your confidence." I say this in the sacred and holy name of our Protector and Redeemer, 

even the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Jeffrey R. Holland