Thought for the day ❤️🙏 #thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints transcript

On occasion, as I'm out and about, I get the question, "How do I >> [music] >> leave behind feelings of guilt and shame, even after repenting?" [music] It's a fair question. We know that regret and remorse even godly sorrow [music] lead us to repentance and to the joy of forgiveness. But [music] how do we leave behind those lingering feelings of [music] guilt that may persist? Elder Richard G. Scott, who served many years in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, had a an analogy, >> [music] >> kind of a little parable, you know, on this subject.

He said, "Suppose you were foolish enough to >> [music] >> walk through a mud puddle and get mud on your shoes. >> [music] >> What would you do? Well, you would repent, in a sense. You'd >> [music] >> scrape off the mud. You would wipe the shoes clean. You might even polish them a bit. But you wouldn't put the mud in an envelope >> [music] >> and carry it around with you as a as a reminder or penance of some kind for your mistake.

[music] We need to leave the mud behind. You don't carry it with you. I bear you my witness of the reality and the reach [music] of the Savior's atonement, of his grace. It can and does [music] sanctify and transform us. It does reconcile [music] and fully compensate for all that we may have done >> [music] >> that was wrong, mistakes, sins, transgressions. Whatever we may have been, we can now become [music] through him holy men and holy women.

And I bear witness that you and I can be made holy [music] through the atonement of Jesus Christ and have joy in him. In the name of Jesus Christ. [music] Amen. >> [music]