I scanned through a talk Elder Richard G. Scott gave a few years ago about the Savior. He of course made so many good points about following the Savior and how easy it can be, and also how hard it can be. One line he said really stuck out to me for some reason:
"Satan works very hard so that the essential things won’t happen."
That's so true! First of all, Satan hates the fact that we didn't follow him in the pre-existence. He despises that we have bodies and he doesn't. He hates that we have the potential to go back to Heavenly Father and he never will be able to. He will be miserable for the rest of his life.
He doesn't want to be alone all miserable. He wants to take as many of us as he can. His goal is to make us miserable while on this earth when we should be focused on trying to be happy. And yes, we will have hard times. A lot of us already have had hard times. But we can still find happiness through those trials because we have Christ as our guide. If we listen to Satan and all his lies, telling us there is no hope for us, or happy days are no longer available to us, we will end up miserable just like him. Misery stunts progress. I'm definitely guilty of wallowing in self-pity sometimes and it never gets me anywhere. Focusing on Christ gets me somewhere.
His life and teachings are here for us this day to help us through everything. No matter how hard Satan tries to get us to listen to him, Jesus Christ can have the stronger influence. It is a constant battle every day and will be while we are here on this earth. But by looking at the grand scheme of things, we are only on this earth for a short while. We can have eternal happiness. Satan never will. We are stronger than him, even though he tries really hard to get us to believe otherwise.
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