Day 25: His Grace

i'm trying to do more studying on the topic of grace because it's such an important part of my life. It's the only way I have a chance to be able to return to Heavenly Father. I was reading the Bible Dictionary's definition on grace and it stated that there really is no chance that we could return to our Heavenly Father without the grace of Jesus Christ.

I've known that growing up because we're taught in sunday school and whatever else all about that famous scripture saying "By the grace of God we are saved, only after all we can do." So basically, even when we do all we can do, it still isn't enough. That's when Jesus Christ steps in and takes care of everything else because we are mortal and imperfect and will never be able to make up our mistakes completely on our own. We still need Jesus Christ. It's such a simple doctrine, but so important.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the plan was made that way. The plan was set up for us to always need Jesus Christ. Even if we use the atonement every day, the atonement is only possible because Jesus Christ takes care if it in the end. We repent and change our ways as much as we can, but we'll still mess up. We're still going to be imperfect while on this earth. We need Jesus Christ's grace every day. Why would he send us down to this earth if there was no need for an atonement? We have to make choices on this earth to learn who we really are and to reach our full potential and to learn the difference from right and wrong. We can only learn the difference between right and wrong if we make some wrong choices. Then what? We have to pay a price for not being perfect. We have to repent to be better. "No unclean thing can enter into the kingdom of God." That's us. Unclean. But with the grace of the Savior, we can be clean. He suffered the atonement to be able to give us his grace to help us along in this life.