“For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink— Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men. Wherefore, I command you again to repent, lest I humble you with my almighty power; and that you confess your sins, lest you suffer these punishments of which I have spoken, of which in the smallest, yea, even in the least degree you have tasted at the time I withdrew my Spirit.” (D&C 19:16-20). The Savior's suffering during the Atonement was so great that He sweat drops of blood from every pore. He didn't deserve this suffering and when it got intense enough, He didn't want to continue, but nevertheless He did the will of His Father and drank the cup to its bitter dregs. If we will not repent and apply the forgiveness that is available through the Atonement, then we must suffer even as Christ suffered, and sweat drops of blood for our own sins. It is not noble or moral for us to take upon ourselves the price of our own sins. Christ already paid the debt. For us to pay it too is not just redundant but tragic as it makes Christ's sacrifice on our behalf completely wasted. There is no sin too great or too small that cannot be covered by the Atonement. We may try to rationalize our delay of repenting for even our smallest sins by speculating that God has much bigger things to worry about than to focus on the minutiae of our littlest sins. All of us make dozens of mistakes every day, many of them minor. But we shouldn't sweat and suffer over even these mistakes. The more often that we reach out to our Savior and accept His forgiveness for our tiniest mistakes, the more comfortable we will be repenting from much more serious errors.
