When Elder Mark A. Bragg, General Authority Seventy, received the assignment several months ago to speak at BYU–Idaho’s devotional on Tuesday, June 2, a topic immediately came to his mind. But it wasn’t until recently that he learned why.
As he began his talk on the Rexburg, Idaho, campus, Elder Bragg told the students that he was speaking to those who are tired, troubled, discouraged, disappointed and heartbroken. He shared with them how they can survive their trials and be sanctified by them through what he termed “Christlike resilience.”
When the Savior, Jesus Christ, was in Gethsemane, He “fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Matthew 26:39). That word “nevertheless” may be the most resilient word in all of scripture, Elder Bragg said.