Should You Take The Atonement For Granted?
Today in sacrament meeting a youth in the ward gave a short talk about the 3rd article of faith. As part of the talk she said: "so, we should not take the atonement for granted". Immediately I had some unnecessarily contrary thoughts that I found both interesting and amusing. Plus, I knew I could make a blog post about them with a really click-baity title. I think that part of "taking the atonement for granted" would be to assume that even without me trying at all or doing anything heroic, an atonement was made for me to return to a celestial heaven. I can just "take it for granted" that no matter what, there is a path way for me to return home and have peace in both this life and the life to come. It's okay to just assume that even if I cause a bunch of issues in my life, dig myself into a big proverbial hole and even make a whole bunch of other people's lives worse, even in that case, I still will have a lifeline to become clean and pure and