This week I was reading in the Liahona and there was an image that impacted me alot it's called "The Agony in the Garden" by Frans Schwarz (Danish) It's a painting that has Christ in the Garden with the angel. It made me think of the Atonement and also of the divine help that we need to be able to overcome any problem. Christ being the most powerful person and greatest person who has touched the earth needed comfort from the angel in the garden. When we think about the Atonement it really is too hard to understand all that he suffered. Christ at one point in his life fasted 40 days and 40 nights and in that verse it said "he was hungry." Imagine us after 2 days, 3 days, a week fasting!! We would be dead! But we see when he fasted he didn't even complain or feel pain. But in the moment in the garden he begged the father that he could pass the pain and take it away. But always willing to complete his mission. There we can see the sheer agony that he suffered. I love Christ, and every time someone says that Mormons don't believe in Christ and only in Joseph Smith, it offends me. He is our Savior and how the bible dictionary says "the capitan of our salvacion."
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