Discussion on faith and divine will

In the way they understood their faith, they began placing less confidence in one particular outcome and more confidence in Heavenly Father himself. Elder Bednar later summarized the principle this way when he said, strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of his will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for, for, or wanted. That's Daniel chapter three. Our God is able to save us, but if not, he's still our God. I think every disciple eventually reaches some version of this lesson, don't they? Most of us are probably never going to stand in front of a literal furnace. But we will pray for things that matter just as deeply to us. We may pray for somebody that we love to recover from illness. We may pray for a relationship to be repaired. We may pray for a marriage to survive. We may pray for a child who is struggling. We may pray for an opportunity, an answer, a mission call, a job, relief from emotional pain, or for something difficult simply to end. And sometimes the answer comes exactly the way we hope. We love those times, don't we? But other times it doesn't. And that can be difficult because it is tempting to begin measuring God's love by whether he gives us the outcome that we requested. But I don't think that is the relationship Heavenly Father is trying to build with us. He wants us to know him well enough that even when we don't understand what he is doing, we still know who he is. I love something that Nephi says in First Nephi 1117, that I think would be good for all of us to remember. He's asked a question that he cannot fully answer nor understand. And so he responds, well, I know that he loveth, speaking of God, that he loveth his children. Nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things. Now. I love the order of that sentence. I don't know everything. I've recognized that I won't. But I know that he loves his children, that there are experiences, immortality, where that may be all that you and I can honestly say. I don't understand that.