God Shall Wipe Away All Tears

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1. Genesis 3:16

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   As part of our Heavenly Father’s plan, He allowed sorrow to be woven into our mortal experience.

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2. 1 Peter 3:14

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   When we view the difficult experiences of life through the lens of faith in Christ, we are able to see that there can be godly purpose in our suffering.

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3. Mosiah 12:27

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   When we view the difficult experiences of life through the lens of faith in Christ, we are able to see that there can be godly purpose in our suffering.

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4. Ether 12:19

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   Everyone listening today is acquainted with some measure of loneliness, despair, grief, pain, or sorrow.

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5. 3 Nephi 28:10

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   Everyone listening today is acquainted with some measure of loneliness, despair, grief, pain, or sorrow.

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6. 2 Nephi 31:19

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   Everyone listening today is acquainted with some measure of loneliness, despair, grief, pain, or sorrow.

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7. Doctrine and Covenants 58:2

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   God invites us to respond with faith to our own unique afflictions in order that we may reap blessings and gain knowledge that can be learned in no other way.

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8. Doctrine and Covenants 136:29

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   “If thou art sorrowful, call on the Lord thy God with supplication, that your souls may be joyful.”

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9. 2 Corinthians 4:17

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   our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”

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10. 2 Corinthians 11:23

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    Paul’s ability to speak of the trials, persecutions, and sorrows of his life as “light” afflictions belies the severity of his suffering, which was for him swallowed up by the eternal perspective of the gospel.

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11. Doctrine and Covenants 121:7

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    Many of us have pleaded with God to remove the cause of our suffering, and when the relief we seek has not come, we have been tempted to think He is not listening.

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12. Mosiah 24:12

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    Many of us have pleaded with God to remove the cause of our suffering, and when the relief we seek has not come, we have been tempted to think He is not listening.

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13. 2 Corinthians 12:7

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    In an intimate and reflective passage, Paul tells us of an unnamed “thorn” in his flesh, which caused him great pain and brought him three times to his knees, begging the Lord to take it from him.

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14. Mosiah 4:16

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    As we acquire this eternal perspective in our lives, our capacity to endure grows, we learn how to succor those in need of succor, and we come to appreciate and even express gratitude for the experiences God allows us to have as tutors in the path to eternal life.

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15. Ether 12:4

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    The fact that Brother Apilado was living a life pleasing unto God when tragedy struck did not prevent the tragedy, nor did it make him immune from the sorrow that followed.

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16. Isaiah 61:1

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    During my visit, Brother Apilado, now the stake patriarch, introduced me to his new wife, Simonette, and to their two sons, Raphael and Daniel.

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17. Matthew 11:28

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    If I may speak to you individually—“all ye that labour and are heavy laden”—may I suggest that your personal struggles—your individual sorrows, pains, tribulations, and infirmities of every kind—are all known to our Father in Heaven and to His Son.

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18. Alma 7:11

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    The purpose and mission of Jesus Christ included that He would “take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people,” “take upon him their infirmities,” and “succor his people according to their infirmities.”

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19. Revelation 7:17

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    When all is finished and we have endured all things with faith in Jesus Christ, we have the promise that “God shall wipe away all [the] tears from [our] eyes.”

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20. Revelation 21:4

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    When all is finished and we have endured all things with faith in Jesus Christ, we have the promise that “God shall wipe away all [the] tears from [our] eyes.”

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21. Judges 7

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    During a recent stake conference assignment I attended in the Philippines, my heart was broken as I learned of the tragic experience of Brother Daniel Apilado.

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22. Mosiah 16:9

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    Then we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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1. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 11: From Judea to Galilee

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   • Revelation 7:17

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     Open paragraph (Revelation 5:6, 8, 12, 13; 6:1, 16; 7:9, 10, 17)

     John’s use of the designation “Lamb of God” implied his conception of the Messiah as One appointed for sacrifice, and his use of the term is the earliest mention found in the Bible.

2. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 13: Honored by Strangers, Rejected by His Own

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   • Isaiah 61:1

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     Our Lord’s fame spread through all the region round about.

3. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 18: As One Having Authority

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   • Matthew 11:28

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     Seemingly faint at heart over the unbelief of the people, Jesus sought strength in prayer.

4. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 22: A Period of Darkening Opposition

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   • Matthew 11:28

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     Open paragraph (Matthew 11:28)

     Emancipation from these and “many such like things” must have been relief indeed.

5. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 25: Jesus Again in Jerusalem

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   • Revelation 7:17

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     “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

6. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal

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   • Alma 7:11

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     In some manner, actual and terribly real though to man incomprehensible, the Savior took upon Himself the burden of the sins of mankind from Adam to the end of the world.

7. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 42: Jesus the Christ to Return

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   • Revelation 21:4

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     Open paragraph (Revelation 21:1, 3, 4)

     Regeneration of the Earth.—In speaking of the graded and progressive glories provided for His creations, and of the laws of regeneration and sanctification, the Lord has thus spoken through revelation in the present dispensation: “And again, verily I say unto you, the earth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom, for it filleth the measure of its creation, and transgresseth not the law.