David Journal

Tag: Alma

  • Acknowledge your unworthiness before God

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    I think it is valuable to recognize that while we should acknowledge our unworthiness before God that doesn’t mean we should always telegraph or unworthiness to the world. Instead we should be an example of the worthiness of Christ to those around us. We should show in word and deed that he has made us…

  • Appeal unto the Lord

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    You must appeal unto the Lord for all things whatsoever ye must do with them… Alma 37:16 Alma said those words to Helaman with regard to the sacred records being given into his care but I realize that also applies to the children that have been given into my care. I will need to ask…

  • O my son Aaron

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    Alma shows a pattern of how to pass on earned wisdom. The pattern is to share the counsel and then validate it with the experience by which it was earned. The key is that whatever is being shared should point back to Christ. Alma taught his son to trust in God and then shared his…

  • A new balance

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    Perhaps Alma recognized after the mission to the Zoramites and its social fallout that society had reached a new state of equilibrium. The Zoramites had been divided between those (mostly poor) who were converted and resettled in Jershon and those who began to associate with the Lamanites. Surely not all Nephites were members of the…

  • The universal message

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    The message of Alma to Corianton is very similar to his message to Helaman (besides the specific stuff about keeping the plates) and I realize that his message—be faithful and patient and endure to the end in Christ; also, I didn’t learn this because of my own worthiness but rather by the grace of my…

  • If we will look we may live forever

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    I am seeing how for several years I “endured to the end” by hanging on by my fingernails rather than finding comfort in Christ to let Him strengthen me that I might bear up my burdens with ease.

  • The whole meaning of the law

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    When Amulek says that the whole meaning of the law is the sacrifice of Christ we might mistakenly assume that applied to the Law of Moses only but the truth is that both before Abraham and after Christ is is also try that the whole meaning of each suspension of the gospel is to point…

  • Testifying of Christ

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    As I read Alma testify of the doctrine of Christ to the Zoramites I keep thinking of ways to more effectively testify of the doctrine of Christ to my unbelieving children.

  • Barren ground

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    I look at our family and the number of children who have no faith and I realize that it is because our ground was basically barren—scorching in the heat of an extended drought. Thankfully we have been notifying it for a while already so I wouldn’t describe it as barren anymore but their ground is…

  • Korihor and the Zoramites

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    I wonder if Korihor sought out the Zoramites after he was struck dumb. It may be that he expected to be treated more kindly by a people who did not believe the things he had been preaching against. Of course his muteness would prevent him from joining with the Zoramite practice of proclaiming how uniquely…