Christ's
Atonement Can Raise Us Above All Things
Robert
D. Hales
We read in the
Doctrine and Covenants that the Savior "comprehendeth all things, and
all things are before him, and all things are round about him; and he
is
above all things" (D&C 88:41). President Wilford Woodruff, when
teaching of the Savior, said, "I have always looked upon the life of
our Savior -- who
descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things--as an
example for His followers" (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff,
ed. G. Homer Durham
[1946], 4). It was necessary that Jesus should descend below all things
by living in mortality, in order that He might raise others above all
things through the
Atonement. ("Return with Honor," Ensign, June 1999, p. 9)