“Let me not forget, O Savior.”

In a moment of pain- with which I was not yet well acquainted- the most helpful invitation I received was this:

“Feel this pain with the Lord.”

Not a dismissal, nor an under or over exaggeration of my current situation.

Instead, direction to find Him.

“Don’t focus so intensely on your problems that you can’t see the solution.

I testify that the Lord Jesus Christ is the solution to even our most difficult problems.” Bro. Camargo

I sat physically in a church pew and spiritually at the sacramental altar. I sang the words of a sacrament hymn until a broken voice and teary eyes interrupted any audible song.

I sat preoccupied with my current problem until His Spirit pierced my soul with the Solution.

“Let me not forget, O Savior, Thou didst bleed and die for me when thy heart was stilled and broken on the cross at Calvary.” (Hymn 172)

And even though I had fallen short of my covenant by forgetting, He fulfilled His covenant promise by creating my opportunity to remember.

In the very ordinance of covenant renewal, He made my repentance possible. And I was able to feel that with Him only because He’d felt it first.

I’d forgotten; because I’m graven upon the palms of His hands He never forgets.

Only the Savior can assign redemptive power to carrying life’s burdens.

From carrying for naught to forgetting Him not while carrying.

“[Patience] means staying with something and doing all that we can… even when the desires of our hearts are delayed.” E. Uchtdorf

I testify that the One who knows the righteous desires of our hearts will personally see to their fulfillment, because He feels them also.

Let us not forget Him who always remembers us.