David Journal

Tag: Alma

  • Men are their own judges

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    For behold, {men} are their own judges, whether to do good or do evil. Alma 41:7 This is the whole point of agency and is the reason that with full facts laid before them nobody will have cause to complain that their final judgement is unjust because they will recognize that any variance from unvarnished…

  • Preliminary judgement

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    The thing that Alma asked “may be called a resurrection” is really a preliminary judgement. There is no reuniting of the spirit and the body (resurrection) but merely a differentiation between those who were primarily good and earnest who find themselves in a state of peace and those who tried to get away with ignoring…

  • Give heed to the counsel of your brothers

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    Alma encouraging Coronation to listen to the counsel of his brothers suggests that he expected that his time and availability were limited. It also teaches us that we should look to our righteous peers and not limit our learning to those with more experience than we have.

  • 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…