Believing Christ

After several deep, thought-provoking books, I decided to go out of order on my bookshelf and read a much smaller, simpler book. Thus I chose Believing Christ by Stephen E Robinson. Although the book is small and simple, it was VERY thought-provoking.

Robinson discusses how even members of the Church don’t understand Christ’s role as the Savior. We have an easier time believing IN Christ than we do just believing Him, or trusting Him. This is due largely to the fact we are very aware of our weaknesses and our inability to do everything we want to or know we should. Robinson points out that we will come up short. That is a fact we need to get used to.

The good news is that even though we are not perfect by ourselves, we can be perfect in Christ, as Moroni teaches in the Book of Mormon. We have a limited deficit, but Christ has an infinite amount of grace. No matter how bad our deficit (number of sins), when we partner with Christ, His abundant grace is enough to allow us to still enter the Celestial Kingdom. This is what the scriptures mean when they use the phrase, “His grace is sufficient.” The truths taught in this book were very simple, but pure and simple truths are the best kind, because the Holy Ghost can easily testify of them.