My Relationship with Christ

I am so grateful for this class because it has strengthened my relationship with Christ.  I have learned so much about how Christ cares for me and I feel like I already have learned to rely on Him more.  This past week, when studying 3 Nephi 11, my love for my Savior grew even more for these reasons:
1)  Verse 14 starts with Christ saying to the people "Arise."  This implies that they have fallen.  This can apply to the fall of Adam or just when people sin in general.  When people fall, it seems as though they have no hope to get back up.  However, when Christ comes, He is able to help us arise.  Christ comes to us to exalt us and come back to God's presence.
2)  Again in verse 14, Christ invites us to thrust our hands into His side.  Brother Griffin explained that this means that we get to touch His heart.  This really touched me.  President Monson gave a talk entitled "Blessing of the Temple."  In that talk, he recounted a story of a little girl who went to the temple with her grandfather.  Though she was too young to enter, he prompted her to just touch it.  In the end, he explains that when you touch the temple, it touches you.  I think that principle applies to this scripture.  When we touch Christ's heart, it will touch us in return.  It is so humbling to think that He has invited us to do something so intimate and bonding.  I know that when we take the invitation to touch Christ's heart and know what the intentions of His heart are, we will be blessed beyond belief.
3)  In verse 14 it also discusses how he has prints in His hands and feet.  Brother Griffin mentioned that Christ is the only resurrected being who will still have scars.  This was such a crazy principle to me.  After all, Christ is the only person ever who has lived a perfect life and He is the one who does not end up with a perfected body.  Brother Griffin also said that Christ can't forget us because we are engraved on the palms of His hands and will be there for eternity.  I am amazed when I think of Christ looking at the scars of His hands and thinking of me and my welfare.  I am overwhelmed with His love!
4)  In verse 15 it says that the people went forth to visit with Christ one by one.  We know that there were at least 2,500 people there.  If Christ spent, at minimum, one minute with all of them, that still would have taken so much time.  I am sure, though, that He spent more time with each person.  I am sure it was enough time for Him to lessen their cares and increase the love they felt from Him.   I think of this whenever I feel discouraged and overwhelmed.  No matter what problems I may have, there is always someone there who has the time to listen to me.  He is waiting for me to come to Him and is anxious to help.  I am so grateful for my Savior who is there to comfort me in every time of trouble I may have.

I know that Christ is my living Savior.  I know that He knows how to help each and every one of us.  My own personal and intimate relationship with Christ is the most valuable thing I have.  I am so grateful for His loving example and for the love He shows to me.