We Need Our Savior

This Christmas season, we have the opportunity to reflect on the birth of our Savior and his example. One of the videos the LDS Church put out for this Christmas season makes us really think about how much we truly need our Savior. (https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2015-12-1000-why-we-need-a-savior--a-christmas-message-about-our-savior-jesus-christ-asaviorisborn?category=topics/christmas&lang=eng) If we didn’t have a Savior, our very lives would be meaningless. We would come to Earth to live and die for nothing. We would make one mistake, maybe a minor sin and everything would be lost for us. For “no unclean thing can dwell in the presence of God.” We wouldn’t have the means or ability to repent and we could never return to the presence of our Heavenly Father again. We would be without love, without faith, without hope. Our loved ones would pass on and we would never be able to see them again. They would be lost to us forever. In a world without a Savior, why even bother? What would be the point of anything? We would have no one to look up to, no example to follow, no means whereby we could repent. No one to turn to, to comfort us, no one would be able to understand us. There would be no way we could live again; no way we could see our loved ones again. 

As Elder Holland said; “What a plight! The entire human race in free fall—every man, woman, and child in it physically tumbling toward permanent death, spiritually plunging toward eternal anguish. Is that what life was meant to be? Is this the grand finale of the human experience? Are we all just hanging in a cold canyon somewhere in an indifferent universe, each of us searching for a toehold, each of us seeking for something to grip—with nothing but the feeling of sand sliding under our fingers, nothing to save us, nothing to hold on to, much less anything to hold on to us? Is our only purpose in life an empty existential exercise—simply to leap as high as we can, hang on for our prescribed three score years and ten, then fail and fall, and keep falling forever?

                              The answer to those questions is an unequivocal and eternal NO!”

        There is hope because we have a Savior, even Jesus Christ. We need a Savior! Oh! How

desperately we need a Him every hour! In 2 Nephi 2:8, it reads “Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise.”

 Helaman 5:9 adds “…remember that there is no other way nor means whereby man can be saved, only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, who shall come; yea, remember that he cometh to redeem the world.”

We need a Savior in order for us to repent through His

Atonement, be cleansed and return to our Father’s presence again someday. We need a Savior for He understands us perfectly and is always there for us. He knows every worry, every pain, every sorrow, and every fear. He also knows every joy and every success; he knows our hopes and desires. If we just reach out for Him, He is always there, ready to take our hand and lead us along.  In his talk, Because He Came, President Monson said; “Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow…Because He came, there is meaning to our mortal existence. Because He came, we know how to reach out to those in trouble or distress, wherever they may be. Because He came, death has lost its sting, the grave its victory. We will live again because He came. Because He came and paid for our sins, we have the opportunity to gain eternal life…”

We all need a Savior and I am so grateful for Christ and his atoning sacrifice. I am very grateful for His peace, comfort, love and all that He’s done for us. I’m grateful that because of Him we have hope and our lives have meaning that we can be with our families forever and dwell in God’s presence again. I am grateful for this Christmas season when we can celebrate His birth and reflect on what He has done for us all through the year. As the apostles say in the Living Christ, "God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son." 

If you haven't already watched the church's Christmas videos, "A Savior Is Born", watch them! https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2015-12-1000-a-savior-is-born-christmas-video?category=topics/christmas&lang=eng