This is so amazing!! Go read the article HERE
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Monday, January 7, 2008
1 Nephi Chapter 4
You can read 1 Nephi Chapter 4 HERE
Even though Nephi and his brothers had failed in the past Nephi was still motivated to keep the Lord's commandment in getting the records from Laban. Even though keeping the commandment was hard, he still was determine to keep it. His faith in God helped him. His brothers could not understand why even after having angel come before them. His brothers had no faith. They had not prayed to God w/all of their hearts.
Nephi put all of his trust into God. He actually killed another human, a relative of his, for God. At first I thought ~ why would God have Nephi kill somebody? But, it makes sense after what Joseph Smith said ~ “That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another" This could be opened up into a whole other topic of discussion, but what I get from this statement is that God gives us commandments, but understands that there are circumstances that they need to be broken. For instance...self defense. What if we were to kill somebody who was attacking us? Would we be condemned for not upholding the "Thou shall not kill" commandment?
What are your thoughts on this?
Even though Nephi and his brothers had failed in the past Nephi was still motivated to keep the Lord's commandment in getting the records from Laban. Even though keeping the commandment was hard, he still was determine to keep it. His faith in God helped him. His brothers could not understand why even after having angel come before them. His brothers had no faith. They had not prayed to God w/all of their hearts.
Nephi put all of his trust into God. He actually killed another human, a relative of his, for God. At first I thought ~ why would God have Nephi kill somebody? But, it makes sense after what Joseph Smith said ~ “That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another" This could be opened up into a whole other topic of discussion, but what I get from this statement is that God gives us commandments, but understands that there are circumstances that they need to be broken. For instance...self defense. What if we were to kill somebody who was attacking us? Would we be condemned for not upholding the "Thou shall not kill" commandment?
What are your thoughts on this?
Sunday, January 6, 2008
1 Nephi Chapter 3
You can read 1 Nephi Chapter 3 HERE
This chapter really shows you that God makes a way for you to follow what he commands of you. It takes Faith in him. Faith is my resolution word for the year 2008. I'm working on strengthening my Faith in all areas of my life. Faith in my marriage, my parenting skills, my job, my love for God. God does make it easy for you to follow his commandments. There are so many temptations out there, but God gives us a way through the Gospel that we can follow what he commands of us. Something neat about this chapter was it shows that God will not command something of us that is not reachable. He will help us, we just have to have Faith in him.
This chapter really shows you that God makes a way for you to follow what he commands of you. It takes Faith in him. Faith is my resolution word for the year 2008. I'm working on strengthening my Faith in all areas of my life. Faith in my marriage, my parenting skills, my job, my love for God. God does make it easy for you to follow his commandments. There are so many temptations out there, but God gives us a way through the Gospel that we can follow what he commands of us. Something neat about this chapter was it shows that God will not command something of us that is not reachable. He will help us, we just have to have Faith in him.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
1 Nephi Chapter 2
You can read 1 Nephi Chapter 2 HERE
This chapter really hit home. It's amazing how if you are unfaithful to the Lord and deny him and don't follow his commandments you are going to continue down that downward spiral. If you don't pray with your heart and ask for the truth you aren't going to get it. When you rebel against God you lose the Holy Spirit. Even in my own personal life I can say that when I was up to no good and going completely against what God wanted for me I lost my way. But all it takes is one prayer and faith to start feeling the spirit again.
For Lehi to put all of his faith in God and take his family away from everything they knew and loved he must have really trusted God. In a way this was me 9 months ago. I felt like Sacramento was doing no good for us. It's almost like it was corrupting my life. I never would have imagined packing up my family and uprooting our roots the way I did, but something inside of me told me that it was the right thing to do. If I didn't listen to that voice inside of my heart who knows where my life would be today. I had to put faith in God that everything would work out and it did.
There's so many people that deny the spirit like Laman and Lemuel. I can understand the frustrations that Nephi is feeling with his brothers, because I too have family that I wish would follow a different path and not go against God and go against the commandments, but all I can do is pray for them.
Does this Chapter relate to your life at all?
This chapter really hit home. It's amazing how if you are unfaithful to the Lord and deny him and don't follow his commandments you are going to continue down that downward spiral. If you don't pray with your heart and ask for the truth you aren't going to get it. When you rebel against God you lose the Holy Spirit. Even in my own personal life I can say that when I was up to no good and going completely against what God wanted for me I lost my way. But all it takes is one prayer and faith to start feeling the spirit again.
For Lehi to put all of his faith in God and take his family away from everything they knew and loved he must have really trusted God. In a way this was me 9 months ago. I felt like Sacramento was doing no good for us. It's almost like it was corrupting my life. I never would have imagined packing up my family and uprooting our roots the way I did, but something inside of me told me that it was the right thing to do. If I didn't listen to that voice inside of my heart who knows where my life would be today. I had to put faith in God that everything would work out and it did.
There's so many people that deny the spirit like Laman and Lemuel. I can understand the frustrations that Nephi is feeling with his brothers, because I too have family that I wish would follow a different path and not go against God and go against the commandments, but all I can do is pray for them.
Does this Chapter relate to your life at all?
1 Nephi Chapter 1
You can read 1 Nephi Chapter 1 HERE
I really enjoyed this chapter. What a great way to start the BOM. I found similarities of Lehi's account with God with Joseph Smith's. They came to god with all of their heart during time that the world needed him most and God came to them and showed them the way. Gave them books to help lead them. They both were mocked and rejected for what they said they saw.
Nephi is not writing an account of his own in this book, but of accounts of his father, and he's writing this account to show us that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance. See 1 Nephi 1:20.
If you're following this journey with me what is your take on Chapter 1?
I really enjoyed this chapter. What a great way to start the BOM. I found similarities of Lehi's account with God with Joseph Smith's. They came to god with all of their heart during time that the world needed him most and God came to them and showed them the way. Gave them books to help lead them. They both were mocked and rejected for what they said they saw.
Nephi is not writing an account of his own in this book, but of accounts of his father, and he's writing this account to show us that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance. See 1 Nephi 1:20.
If you're following this journey with me what is your take on Chapter 1?
Friday, January 4, 2008
My New Journey
I am creating this blog to for my new adventure on reading the Book of Mormon. I am using this STUDY GUIDE and am starting from the beginning and hopefully finishing the end by the Spring Conference. That's a goal, but I won't be disappointed if I don't reach it. I want to take my time on this, because I really want to take it all in and enjoy this wonderful story. If you want to join me please do!! I'd love to have others to talk about this with. Hopefully i can learn something as well as teach some of you something if you're lurking around these parts.
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