David Journal

Tag: insights

  • Restoration vs Transformation

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    The concepts of restoration and transformation are both foundational to the plan of salvation but they are two separate things that each have a place. Alma presents two lists: Restoration is what happens at the judgement when God takes the inputs of desire and action by each individual and outputs an eternal version of them…

  • Exploring joy

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    The above list of bullet points were a quick outline this morning of an analogy comparing testimony or the light of Christ within us to fire. I had planned to flesh it out tonight but it’s late enough that I don’t want to do that right now. I have been thinking throughout the day about…

  • Reasoning away responsibility

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    There is an important pattern to notice in the logic of the Lamanites. In their thinking they were consistently victims and they always had someone else to blame. That mental process of assigning volition and responsibility to others provides the excuse to abandon moral boundaries. It is important to recognize two things about this pattern…

  • Many dissentions

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    Mormon mentions that there were many dissentions to the Lamanites in the days of king Benjamin. I’ve never paid attention to that before but it makes me realize that there was a lot of mixing between the Nephites and the Lamanites over their history. In fact, when we add that fact with the recognition that…

  • The branches overcame the roots

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    The strong roots of the olive tree were able at first to bring natural fruit from the will branches but then the branches grew and took strength to themselves into they were stronger than the natural roots. In the church the Lord is busy picking only the most bitter of the wild branches while allowing…

  • “He will plead your cause”

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    I have often chuckled at the fact that when Jacob said he would speak to the pure in heart he only had 2 verses before he was talking again to those who were not pure in heart but today, rather than chuckling, I am considering how desirable his promises were to the pure in heart.…

  • Receiving guidance and insight

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    The Lord pointed me back to my old personal prayer roll from about 4 years ago. That will give me things to pray for consistently. I updated it to make it current. Then in elders quorum I received this insight after reading this scripture: After this, Elias appeared, and committed the dispensation of the gospel…

  • A feeling of accomplishment

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    I recently discovered that Mickey has been keeping the window open at nights and the cats can get out without supervision—that’s almost certainly why George was outside when I woke up the other morning screen though ask the cats were inside when I went to bed the night before.  I decided to look into getting…

  • Kingdoms of Glory

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    All children of our Heavenly Father will receive the highest kingdom of glory in which they can comfortably dwell. The focus of this church is to prepare his children for the highest level of the celestial kingdom. The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.

  • The ways of the Lord

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    I saw a video about tops (as in, the little toys that you spin—yes, it’s related) which talked about how many of them behave in ways that don’t intuitively make sense such as rising up or even turning over when spun with sufficient velocity. Of course a sufficient understanding of the physics of rotational inertia…