What does trusting your heavenly father mean? In order to understand this you need to know that he loves you first of all. You see you can’t trust someone until you know what they offer you is good and worthy to even be trusted.
To know that he loves us I will do a little science experiment. All that it requires is one orange. As you can see the orange is a little ball and is usually orange. On the outside it has a rind. On the inside is juicy, and if you could smell them they would smell pretty good. You can take this half and peel a little slice off, no cutting necessary. Seeds are in the inside so you can plant an orange tree and grow 10 times more from just one. Most of you would ask: “how does this relate to Heavenly Father loving us?” Well from this orange we can tell a lot of reasons why Heavenly Father loves us. The rind on the outside is flammable and could be recycled in certain ways, perhaps even to start a fire if you’re lost. You can also tear it off the inside with a lot of ease. The inside is juicy and sweet and has a lot of good chemicals that can give you more energy then an average candy bar. The slices on the inside you can tear off easily and not ruin the inside. You can peel and you don’t need a knife to peel or cut anything off the orange. You can take one seed and multiply it into thousands more seasonally.
From just one little orange we can say that he loves us. The orange is healthy, can reproduce, no other accessories are required (however its nice to have them.) In the scriptures there are many acts to show that he loves us. One of them is Moses 2:26. (Read scripture) In this verse it says that we have dominion over the fishes of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the beasts of the land, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. In the most recent general conference, President Uchtdorf gave a talk and in that talk he said, “compared to Heavenly Father we are nothing, but to Heavenly Father we are everything.” So can we trust him now? Well of coarse we can. We just proved that he loves us, all of these gifts every single one is for us.
Trusting in Heavenly Father can give us a lot of blessings, but we love blessings and him. So why not give something that we hold dear to us to him? What is it? Well its time, we have at least 12 to 8 hours every day to do something. Well why not give some of it up and do things like giving service, or going to mutual or doing home teaching or giving charity or even church activities. Well why not give the greatest sacrifice of time, a full time mission. 2 years of our life so that others may be with their families for Eternity. It isn’t that much time, but it’s worth so much and it gives you and your family so many blessings it’s unimaginable. I’ve experienced one side of the blessings from my brother, Cameron, but when I’m 19 I hope I’m ready to experience the other.
