Paisley Imperfect

Knowing the Atonement is Working for Me

If you’re anything like me, you often feel as though all good things are for everyone else and I’m meant only to have hard times and struggles. We try and we try but how do we really know that we’re utilizing the gift of Christ’s Atonement? How do we KNOW it’s working?

If you have felt the influence of the Holy Ghost..., you may take it as evidence that the Atonement is working in your life.
I surely don’t understand all the meaning of the scriptural words “the pure love of Christ” (Moroni 7:47). But one meaning I do know is this: It is a gift we are promised when the Atonement of Jesus Christ has worked in us. The gift is to want what He wants. When our love is the love He feels, it is pure because He is pure. And when we feel our desire for people is moving toward being in line with His, that is one of the ways that we can know that we are being purified. When we pray for the gifts of the Spirit—and we should—one for which I pray is that I might have pure motives, to want what our Father wants for His children and for me, and to feel, as well as to say, that what I want is His will to be done.