March 26

"Is Faith in the Atonement written in our hearts" - President Linda K. Burton, Ensign Nov 2012

Alma 7:7

John 3:16

What commitments do you feel to take upon yourself as you contemplate the love Heavenly Father and the Savior have for you?  What actions did the people of King Benjamin take after they comprehended and felt the love of the Savior for them? 

Mosiah 3:1-12; 5:1-13

"As a new Relief Society presidency, we have sought the Lord earnestly to know what essential things... We have felt that Heavenly Father would first have us help His beloved daughters understand the doctrine of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. As we do so, we know our faith will increase, as will our desire to live righteously. Second, as we have considered the critical need to strengthen families and homes, we have felt that the Lord would have us encourage His beloved daughters to cheerfully cleave to their covenants. When covenants are kept, families are strengthened. Finally, we feel He would have us work in unity with the other auxiliaries and with our priesthood leaders, striving to seek out and help those in need to progress along the path. It is our fervent prayer that each of us will open our hearts and let the Lord engrave in them the doctrines of the Atonement, covenants, and unity."

Principle 1: “All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.”

Principle 2: There is power in the Atonement to enable us to overcome the natural man or woman and become true disciples of Jesus Christ.

Elder David A. Bednar comes to mind: “It is one thing to know that Jesus Christ came to earth to die for us—that is fundamental and foundational to the doctrine of Christ. But we also need to appreciate that the Lord desires, through His Atonement and by the power of the Holy Ghost, to live in us—not only to direct us but also to empower us.”

Principle 3: The Atonement is the greatest evidence we have of the Father’s love for His children.

I promise that we will feel as King Benjamin’s people felt. After they had prayed mightily that the Atonement would be applied in their lives, “they were filled with joy”¹⁸and were “willing to enter into a covenant with … God to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things.”¹⁹ Making, keeping, and rejoicing in our covenants will be the evidence that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is truly written in our hearts.