![]() Cannon, “Remarks,” Deseret Evening News, Mar. 7, 1891, 4, quoted by Elder Jeffrey R. We shall emerge from all these trials and difficulties the better and purer for them. We may pass through the fiery furnace we may pass through deep waters but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, will never desert us. Cannon affirmed that however overwhelming our circumstances may be, we have not been abandoned by God: Joseph Smith used the same metaphor to describe the persecution he had experienced throughout his life:Īnd as for the perils which I am called to pass through, they seem but a small thing to me, as the envy and wrath of man have been my common lot all the days of my life…. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me….ĭeliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Save me, O God for the waters are come in unto my soul. King David experienced a similar sense of helplessness as he prayed for deliverance from an overwhelming set of challenges: “They were many times buried in the depths of the sea,” Moroni tells us, “because of the mountain waves which broke upon them.” What did they do in these circumstances? They turned to God: “When they were encompassed about by many waters they did cry unto the Lord, and he did bring them forth again upon the top of the waters” ( Ether 6:6-7). Nevertheless, for 344 days, they were completely in His hands. ![]() The Lord had provided a miraculous source of light-two shining stones within each boat-which would remind them of His power to save them. They had no way to steer, and because of the design of the barges, they wouldn’t even be able to see what was going on outside much of the time. When it came time for Jared, his brother, and their families to board the huge barges they had built, it was a tremendous leap of faith. The rivers of sorrow shall not thee o’erflow,įor I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,Īnd sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
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