Testimony 9–8–18
As I kneeled at my bedside, lights off, doors closed, I whispered the remaining words of the beloved Lord’s prayer: “…and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil…”
I felt a profound sense of inadequacy as I continued to pray the remaining last words, and for the first time, I recognized my imperfect ability in this moment to truly understand the following:
“For yours is the kingdom
And the power
And the glory
Forever…”
What’s more, my inability to truly understand was also an imperfect attempt to cede these things to Heavenly Father. I was imperfectly submissive to Him. I was inadequately capable of truly causing my prior words to “lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” to come to fruition.
So, for the first time, in the next moments, I whispered the words “even so” to express that even in the midst of my inadequacy His will be done. And in that moment I understood the power of the Book of Mormon, and the richness of meaning underlying it. For I remembered the times that “even so” was written in the Book of Mormon. And while it wasn’t until later that I would understand that it was Christ’s perfect recognition and cecession of Heavenly Father’s authority in the kingdom, His power, and His glory, that caused Heavenly Father to answer Christ’s prayer for humanity to one day “deliver us from evil,” at this time, deep in my psyche, I felt Heavenly Father had given me an example of the depth of meaning often hidden in the Spirit of the Book of Mormon.
