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?
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I am so glad you started this blog! It is such a good idea for you to keep motivated with reading. I wish I had thought of it first. ;) I think I'll have to try to do some posts on scriptural thoughts soon.
"If you don't pray with your heart and ask for the truth you aren't going to get it."
This is so true. When I pray already knowing what I want the answer to be, it isn't very effective. It's not until I give my whole will to God and decide that I'll do whatever He wants me to do that the answers come.
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