I struggle daily in my walk, I assume we all do. I often look at others with success in their different endeavors and often wonder why I can not be as successful as some. I wonder why I lack in talents. It is even more difficult when great trials arise that must be faced and overcome. Not only must I endure them but they must be endured cheerfully as to achieve the greatest growth.
When I do fall into the pool of self pity I am almost instantly reminded of others who faced greater challenges. I think of the words spoken to a prophet who was in prison, "Thou art not yet as Job; thy friends do not contend against thee, neither charge thee with transgression, as they did Job." Doctrine and Covenants 121:10 A quick reminder that things could be worse and that we ought to find the good that yet remains.
Job was a "perfect" man as is spoken of him in the scriptures. He had everything in life that was needed for comfort. Satan came unto the Lord and said Job wouldn't be so good if the Lord would remove all of the blessings he was afforded. The Lord but Job to the test and allowed many terrible things to happen to him yet he remained faithful in all things.
Here is what Elder Neal A Maxwell meant when speaking of being humble both "UP" and "DOWN". Wherever we stand in life whether times are good and we have plenty or when the storms of life arrive and wipe us out. We must remain humble and patient. If we remain faithful we will find just as it was in the end with Job, that every loss endured well is made up a hundred fold.
If we will remember that the greater the pain we endure the sweeter the joy of relief and in the process we will have acquired a greater capacity of enjoyment just like Jesus. Trials stretch the soul which afterwards is never the same. While we struggle with our various trials and transgressions lets us endure them well, for as that same prophet was told, they are but "a small moment and if thou endure it well God shall exalt thee on high."
