If you follow current events at all, you know economists and news commentators are fretting over the coming “fiscal cliff”: income-tax increases and federal government budget cuts on January 1, 2012. Another “cliff” looms, about which mankind has fretted throughout the ages: the physical “cliff” or death of the body.
As believers in Christ, we need not fret over the inevitable physical “cliff.”
“The word that we declare, the word that generates faith in Christ, is the gospel, or good news, of Jesus Christ. Simply put, the good news is that death is not the end of existence and our separation from God is temporary. We have a Savior, Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, who by His Atonement has overcome death and hell so that all will be resurrected and all who will repent and be baptized in His name may have place in the heavenly kingdom of God forever.”*
While our daily lives are filled with work and interesting events, and the world is filled with turmoil, may we all enjoy peace through the good news of Jesus Christ.
* Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, see http://www.lds.org/ensign/2012/09/building-faith-in-christ?lang=eng
