David Journal

Tag: Alma

  • Moroni’s focus

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    Moroni was focused on saving lives. He often gets credit as an amazing soldier, someone who was adept at defeating his enemies, but his focus was not on subjugation or on slaying his foes, his only interest was in saving the lives of innocent people and allowing them to worship God in righteousness.

  • Three steps ahead

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    Amalickiah was always several steps ahead of those he was trying to usurp (besides Moroni). He had more plans in place and was adept at attacking from unexpected positions. Men of the world would expect that countering that would require seeing three steps ahead but the truth is that being fundamentally sound and staying in…

  • Tokens of a covenant

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    Those who flocked to the banner of Moroni rent their garments as a token of their covenant. I hear that and think of having a visible evidence of such a covenant in our day.

  • Why Helaman?

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    Why did Alma not record his own prophecy about the Nephites? Did he feel the need to tell Helaman directly rather than have him read it in the record? Did he want to give Helaman an example of what things to record? Was he not inspired with that project until he delivered the records to…

  • Perish or conquer

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    I love that Zerahemnah had enough honesty to list “perish” before “conquer.” He was not humble enough to enter a covenant yet but he recognized that they were in a precarious position.

  • Creating an advantage

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    Moroni had fewer than half the number of men than he was facing so it was important that he had given his men the advantage of armor. Likewise in our battles we have to plan ahead to give ourselves every possible advantage to achieve our goal.

  • Who are we to define what is fair or just?

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    Interesting that Alma is correcting Corianton on thinking that some part of the plan of salvation was unjust. I had thoughts in Sunday School about how we are unqualified as children to define what is fair because we don’t have full knowledge of all the factors. that’s why we have to rely on parents to…

  • Wrestling the truth and going astray

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    Alma talks to Corianton who has bought into an idea that the resurrection will bring paradise for everyone. I don’t know that the idea he was believing is any more wrong it dangerous than popular ideas that we see today such as the concept that we can be born into the wrong body. Of course…

  • Paradise and prison

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    Between death and the resurrection the souls of men inhabit paradise or prison based upon their righteousness. Those who were righteous are at peace with the lives they led and content to reap the rewards of their choices. They trust that their life after death will be peaceful. On the other hand, those who were…

  • Changing gears

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    I imagine it was a challenge for Alma to shift gears from bearing testimony to a son who was obedient and deserving of commendation to having to correct a son who had invited heavenly condemnation by his disobedience.