I Believe in Jesus Christ

“For behold, I, God suffered these things for all that they might not suffer if they would repent;

but if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;

  which suffering caused myself God,

 have suffered these things for all,

 even God,

the greatest of all,

to tremble because of pain,

and to bleed at every pore,

and to suffer both body and spirit

and would that I might not drink the bitter cup,

and shrink nevertheless,

 glory be to the father,

and I partook and finish my preparations on to the children of men.”

 D&C 19 16 -17

This week's blogging assignment was to listen to and practice meditation from a track called "Loving-Kindness". I did listen to it in its entirety. While I found the concept spreading love and kindness beautiful, the process of doing it as suggested by the meditation track went against my fundamental religious beliefs. Therefore, I did not practice the meditation exercises this week. Here is why...
I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe Him to be the Son of God and Savior of the world. I also know that energy is neither created, nor destroyed.
In the meditation exercise, I was asked to visualize someone in my life who is suffering. After that, I was to visualize myself taking that person's suffering, pain, anger, hatred, etc. from them and bring it into myself. Bring it into my heart where all that negativity can burn up. Then take in others' suffering. I was asked to take all of the suffering from all of the people of the world into myself.

However, to do so would be suggesting that I was as great as my Savior. I am not. I am not capable of such a task. He was the only one in human existence that could ever do such a selfless and saving act. Jesus, in order to do that act had to be perfect and the Son of God, Otherwise, he could not have endured such pain and suffering that he bled from every pore. I allow my Savior to take my suffering from me. To not would be to disregard his sacrifice. To put myself on His level would be a mockery of the gift we are all given. The gift is His atonement for our sins, suffering, pain, hate, fear, and all negativity. I will not do that.

Christ in Gethsemane

Furthermore, I cannot take suffering, pain, hate, fear, or any other negative energy from anyone in order to make them feel better. Jesus Christ could not do that, either. We all have the gift of choice. We must within ourselves decide to give it up unto our Savior. He has accomplished His work. Now, it is our turn to take advantage of what he did for us. But, it must be our choice to do so.
Energy is neither created, nor destroyed. It can only be transferred. So, even if I disregarded my faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement for our sins and suffering, I would be inviting negativity into myself. Where would it go then? My heart cannot destroy it. I must either keep it or give unto another. I do not want to invite negativity into my life. I will freely give all the love I have to give to all the world, But I will not dare take what I cannot bear or want.

If you want to learn more about what I believe I invite you to click this link:

http://mormon.org/jesus-christ/