Elder Henry B. Eyring wrote:
When you’re experiencing a severe trial, ask yourself this question: “Am I trying to do what the Lord would have me do?” If you’re not then adjust your course. But if you are, remember the boy outside the walls of Jerusalem who turned to his brothers and said, “I will go and do the things which the Lord has commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them. (1 Nephi 3:7)
I bear my testimony that the Lord will always prepare a way for you to escape from the trials you will be given if you will understand two things. One is that you need to be on the Lord’s errand. The second thing you need to understand is that the escape will almost never be out of the trial; it will usually be through it. If you pray to have the experience removed all together, you may not find the way prepared for you, Instead, you need to pray to find the way of deliverance through it….
Now, if your afflictions truly humble you, then you see that you’re in a position to have the Holy Ghost whisper to you—not the way to have your difficulties taken from you, but the way to go through them on your errand for the Lord. You will be given the opportunity to serve people who are very different from you.
….I promise you that if you’ll use your gifts to serve someone else you’ll feel the Lord’s love for that person. You’ll also feel His love for you. And you’ll be preparing for times when you will be called to serve people and love them.~Henry B. Eyring, ‘To Draw Closer to God’, Deseret Book 1997 p.86-89
