Mercy

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately because of some conversations that I'd had with a family member recently. I've been thinking about how wonderful it is that God knows ahead of time how to fix everything that we screw up. He knows how to make things right in our lives, even when we may have screwed things up out of our own stupidity. He knows how to save us from our mistakes, or from making bigger mistakes down the road. Now, we have our agency to do what we want, but I love that He places people in our lives and places us where we need to be so that we can be blessed and have everything that we need for our own benefit. More specifically I've been thinking about how God will place people in our lives, take people from our lives or put us somewhere so that we are able to repent and change, or not go deeper than we may have already gone. Not all change can be made on our own and sometimes we may not even want to change; but God loves us. The fact that God is still willing to give us people in our lives to help us and to place us where we need to be so that we can be helped, even when we are undeserving of it or when we may not want to change at all, to me really shows how much mercy Heavenly Father has and wants to give each of us. I love that even when we aren't deserving of it, He is still willing to help us to be in the position we need to be in so that we can come to desire to change and become better. To me that just shows how much Heavenly Father truly loves us. Sometimes it takes a person or a place to make us want to change some bad behavior, and Heavenly Father knows that. I am so grateful for the interference He has had in my life and in the lives of my loved ones that has brought about change in them and in myself. Things don't just happen for a reason. Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us, and He knows that we are not on earth to be perfect and make every right decision. Because of this, He is willing to help us along the way so that we may become perfect, though. It's not an overnight process. Even the smallest change is something that He is proud of. He wants us to return to Him and He is willing to do everything He can to help us along the way. Heavenly Father is so very full of love and mercy. It's such a wonderful concept to me.