How Can I Be Like Jesus? Humility and Submission to God’s Will

Is learning about the atonement also include learning about how Jesus handled the atonement? He humbly asked his Father if there were some other way besides His having to go through so much pain. Once He knew he had to go through it, He did not fight against it. He meekly allowed it to happen. I don’t think that means we allow people to walk all over us or for bad things to happen to us without our trying to stop it. But it may mean that we accept the Father’s will humbly even when it brings hardship or pain.

Whatever trials God wants me to or allows me to go through, don’t complain. The Savior did not open His mouth; in other words he did not murmur about the treatment that he received or what he had to go through. He did not want to go through it but He was willing to.

Jesus did not want to go through the agony of suffering for all of mankind’s sins. If there was any other way, He would have preferred it. In fact he asked that He might not go through it if He didn’t have to. But He did have to go through it in order for God’s plan to work. His suffering for us and His death and resurrection were the only way for us to be able to become like our Heavenly Father and fulfill the commandment to be perfect. So Jesus did what He did not want to do. We could say he submitted His will to his Father’s will; He did what his Father wanted Him to do. But at the same time, He also did what was necessary to do. And he understood that it was necessary. And he was willing to do what was necessary.