The Three-Word Promise

During my morning reading session, I came across a striking phrase in Helaman in the Book of Mormon. As I reflected on it, I realized how significant they are.

Three simple words. If my grammar is correct, it’s a pronoun and two verbs. They hold out an eternal promise to the entire human race. And they place in the lap of all of Adam and Eve’s children the responsibility for their own future.

May they be of some comfort and encouragement for all of us.

    Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked—

So many things get in the way. So many intellectual philosophies muddy the water. But there it is, plain and simple. The secret to happiness, in three simple words.