Trials Prepare the Lord’s People for the Glory He Has in Store for Them
Doctrine and Covenants 136:31
31 My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell wrote:
“We cannot expect to be spared our equivalent of what Saints in other ages have endured. What the Lord has said of His people previously is true currently: ‘. . . [T]he Lord seeth fit to chasten his people’ (Mosiah 23:21). ‘My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom’ (D&C 136:31). And the Lord does all this so extraordinarily well in the midst of our seemingly ordinary lives.
“With chastisement comes the chance for improvement, which, though we do not welcome it, we at least do not reject and resent it. Chastisement may occur in the most private circumstances of life or quite publicly. Either way, it is usually a major challenge for our egos. To be dressed down, as it were, just when we are dressed up, appearing to be something other than we are, is no small blow.”
(We Will Prove Them Herewith [1982], 117–18.)
