Tag: 1 Nephi
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Cultivating desire
The things that we desire are the things that we will truly work to achieve/receive. It is critical that we choose what we desire. We have the agency to do so but it is too easy to simply allow the currents if life to firm desires in us by default if we fail to dig…
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The message of the Messiah
The message of the coming of the Messiah was so important that Lehi continued to tell his sons about the coming captivity and redemption of the Jews at Jerusalem even after they had left when they might seem to have no more reason to think about their brethren. I wondered why he did that until…
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Safety for the Soul
This isn’t the talk I was thinking of when I went looking for it (I misremembered the title – I was thinking of Place No More For The Enemy Of My Soul) but it warms my heart to read it because whatever I may be struggling with I still know unequivocally that the Book of…
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Righteous fathers
In seeking to identify the patterns of righteous father’s I read of Lehi, Alma, Alma the younger, Helaman (the father of Nephi and Lehi, not the son of Alma), and Mormon. Consistently these father’s set a good example for their children and taught them the doctrine. They encouraged them in righteousness and admonished then when…
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Nephi called to build a ship
After arriving in the land the called Bountiful Nephi was in an interesting position. Lehi was the leader of the group and for ask the information we have here may not have received any indication that their journey want complete. After many days Nephi was called to go to a mountain where he was given…
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Ishmael dies
I wonder if oatmeal doing in the wilderness is meant as a reminder to us that sometimes we don’t reach the promised land that we were journeying toward. We have no indication that Ishmael was wicked to cause him to die before they reached the promised land.
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Being overcome
The way Nephi writes the story it sounds like Lehi was overcome after one great prayer in behalf of his people. That may or may not be the case but I think the key is recognizing that he continued to pay in behalf of his people even until he was overcome. We don’t cease to…
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Pray on behalf of my people
I wondered how Lehi began his prophetic journey. I wondered if he had questions. I’m sure he did at times but at the beginning we are told that he was just praying fervently on behalf of his people when he received his revelation that began his prophetic mission. I will work to pay fervently on…
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Another perspective
The words of the Book of Mormon provide a separate perspective on the gospel from the witness of the Bible. You can see in the words of Lehi a perspective similar but independent of the writers in the Bible.
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Quoting Isaiah
The message in these chapters of Isaiah is simply: you are not cut off Israel; I have not abandoned you even now. Nephi could clearly give the interpretation of those words of Isaiah because he had seen their fulfillment in vision.