Can You Feel So Now?

Alma 5:26 “And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if you have experienced a change of heart, and if you have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can you feel so now?”

I have thought about this scripture from The Book of Mormon a lot in the last few weeks. It first came to mind because I read through my journals from 2002 and 2003; there are several entries where I bare my testimony of Jesus Christ in clear and powerful language. I described how I felt the power of the Spirit testifying to me that Jesus is the Christ, that he is my Redeemer, and that I am a daughter of God.

I still know that to be true, but I don’t always take the opportunity to write it down. E. M. Forester once wrote, “How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?” That quote rested directly in front of my seat in English my sophomore year of high school. I read it every day, but I didn’t really understand it until years later when I struggled to clarify my ideas in writing. My writing was not clear because my thoughts were not clear. When I saw what I had to say, I better understood my own thoughts and beliefs. While that application had to do with papers in graduate school, I know it can be true with my testimony as well. 

Jesus is the Christ. He is my Redeemer. I am a daughter of God.

I know this. I know this because I have “felt to sing the song of redeeming love.” I have felt the power of God in my life. I have felt the immense power of the atonement of Jesus Christ. I believe Alma asks the question, “can you feel so now?” because it is so easy to forget that feeling. Life happens, we get busy, and, if we do not continually anchor ourselves in Christ, we forget.  Or at least the feeling dims. I have allowed the feeling to dim too often, but I am grateful for the times when I have written my testimony and the experiences when I have seen God’s hand in my life. I can remember that feeling and rekindle the change of heart it caused at the time.

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