Christ is the answer to overcoming all handicaps

Sometimes it is hard to realize that the Old Testament and the New Testament are about the same God. The OT is so negative in dealing with the wickedness of the people.

“Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them, (graven images) …for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me…” (Exodus 20:4) then in the very next verse he says “and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.” (Exodus 20:5)

Wow! Is that ever harsh?

 Then Christ came and talked about “love one another as I have loved you,” (John 15:12) Yet Christ also said some pretty hard things against the Pharisees. My point is that the true and correct words of God are there in the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, other books, magazines, sermons from pastors, missionaries, your neighbor, and all of us. God speaks truth, but it depends on how we feel about ourselves as to how we receive it. The very scripture that speaks peace to me makes another feel condemned. The really sad thing about it is that often is not from fresh mistakes. It is often from the sins of the parents, things that are we are born with or things that happened to us because of our parents who were also affected by their parents.

I have known babies who are born angry. It wasn’t taught to them. They came out of the womb that way because of their DNA.  I truly believe that when we lived in heaven our spirits were pure and holy, but in the process of becoming mortal (human) we received handicaps. As I have many times told my visually impaired son, everybody has handicaps of some kind and they are not always visible on the outside. Some handicaps are hidden deep inside and Christ is the answer to overcoming all of them.