"Doctrine and Covenants 122 – Jesus Christ has descended below all things. Verses 5-7 create a picture that is difficult to imagine, let alone best or top. How much worse can you have it than to have the very jaws of hell open wide to engulf you? Yet the Savior of the world experienced worse than all of these experiences listed in these verses. If we step back from this verse and look at the message of this section, we see that the Lord has numbered each of our days, has prepared a way through our trials for us, and is intimately knowledgeable of all the ways in which others could betray us and make us suffer in this world. He knows all these things, because He has experienced all these things. It doesn’t matter what we are made to face in our days in mortality, Jesus knows that each and every experience can bring us growth spiritually, if we are seeking to learn from our experiences. Yes, for those who aren’t looking for growth, suffering is just suffering. Only when we hurt and seek out the Lord can He teach us how to learn godly virtues from what we have just gone through. The key here is that, because Christ has descended below all things while he was in mortality, he can teach us the lessons we each need to learn as we go through our own times of trial and suffering. His perfect knowledge and understanding can be used by each of us to learn how to become like him, if only we are committed to sticking by him and staying close to his Spirit. For it is the Spirit’s duty to be our teacher and guide in this process."

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