I had an interesting thought in Sunday School today as I was listening to the lesson about the different escapes of Limhi and Alma. Laura and I are in a challenging period trying to follow the Lord without an apparent path for the temporal support of our family. I have been struggling with my own weakness and the fact that I do not see the path. With the lesson today I saw a group who saw paths toward extracting themselves from their predicament which were not according to the plan of their Savior. They failed multiple times to extract themselves from bondage before finding a plan that met His approval – putting the guards to sleep and sneaking out. Then there was another group who could see no way out and submitted to the bondage with faith in their Savior and trust that He would lead them. Eventually he told them to leave and prepared the way for them to extract themselves from bondage – the guards fell asleep so they could sneak out.
I determined then, though it is difficult to have such patience, that I would bear this uncertainty with patience and trust in my Savior rather than expend needless energy trying to invent my own way. In the end, by his means I will have a way to extract myself from the bondage of the things of the world.