“The Atonement is, in fact, the most powerful motivational force in the world to be good from day to day and, when necessary, to repent when we have fallen short.”
“He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him.”
Paul taught that “the blood of Christ” purges or turns our “conscience from dead works to serve the living God” As we expand our knowledge of the Atonement and increase ourlove for the Savior and the cause for which he suffered, our hearts begin to soften and more readily yield to the motivational powers of his sacrifice. We find new reservoirs of commitment to serve the living God. Eventually there emerges a personal burning resolve that his suffering shall not have been in vain.