Salvation

My last blog post I was asking why patience & trust in God is important and what those actions do within us. I was reading my scriptures yesterday morning and came across two verses that I felt the Spirit touch my heart and I believe I received some of the answer to my question.

I am reading Mosiah in the Book of Mormon and King Benjamin is speaking to his people. Chapter 3 verses 17-19 teach us: And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be no other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the chlidren of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent. For behold he judgeth, and his judgment is just; and the infant perisheth not that dieth in his infancy; but men drink damnation to their own souls except they humble themselves and become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent. For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father. 

I added the italics to show what struck me. I believe that trusting God and exercising patience is connected to our salvation through Christ's Atonement. I believe I learned in these verses that as we submit to the will of the Lord patiently we are becoming as a child and are becoming like Christ. As I pondered this today it makes sense because Jesus is the ultimate example of One who showed patience and trust.

Mosiah 4:6 (latter part of the verse) & 7 ...the atonement which has been prepared from the foundation of the world, that thereby salvation might come to him that should put his trust in the Lord, and should be diligent in keeping his commandments, and continue in the faith even unto the end of his life, I meant the life of the mortal body- I say, that this is the man who receiveth salvation, through the atonement which was prepared from the foundation of the world for all mankind, which ever were since the fall of Adam, or who are, or who ever shall be, even until the end of the world. 

When we show trust, we show faith. This verse taught me to continue in faith is to receive salvation. So, trusting in God and having patience is the very way to the Celestial Kingdom. I still want to know more, but this was a wonderful experience to learn in the scriptures and I feel uplifted. :)