Tag: Mosiah

The Lord first told the people of Alma that he would strengthen them in their bondage rather than deliver them from their bondage. The Lord knows when to do each kind of saving. It just really struck me tonight that Laura and I would be best served now to look for the ability to bear…

It’s interesting to consider how much had happened since Alma and Amulon had last seen each other. Alma had fled from the armies of king Noah. Amulon had nearly been put to death with Noah by those who rebelled against the king. Amulon had stolen the daughters of the Lamanites and started new families. Alma…

The people of Limhi had learned what was being their ability in contending with they landlord t. They had to find a new way of trying to free themselves.

The people of Limhi tried to free themselves and failed. They prayed for deliverance but the first response they got, whether they recognized it at the time or not, was that the Lord blessed them to raise crops more abundantly so that their suffering was erased even if their situation was unchanged. Often the first…

We think of the Lamanites as being in the wrong against the people of Limhi but we have to remember that they had a very real cause to be angry even if they mistakenly directed it at the wrong people. By the time the two groups understood what had taken place they then had more…

In the thicker of trees near the waters of Mormon Alma had the time and space to repent, study and ponder so that he could lead people to Christ. I wonder if he had more than his memory of the words of Abinadi for reference material in that process. If not, he must have had…

It’s sad how easily people with large who’s can be controlled by simply appealing to their ego. When king Noah was ready to let Abinadi go because he feared the judgements that Abinadi warned of his priests quickly got him to change his mind by reminding him that Abinadi had been less than flattering to…

This lady earning from Abinadi about those who would not hearken and could not be saved was meant as a warning to those protests who have been taught—by Abinadi himself let alone any other time—and if they will harden their hearts they have refused salvation.

I’m sure that Abinadi was just itching to testify of Christ as soon as the question was asked about “how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them who publish peace.” The original question was meant to justify an “all is well in Zion” ministry but Abinadi responded with a “God is merciful to…

Never before have I read these words of Isaiah with this reaction. “Who hath believed our report?…there is no beauty that we should desire him.…we hid as it were our faces from him.” It’s not that I particularly see myself in those words at this time but i realized that we would do well to…