I am finding that I am less focused on and totally off schedule on Saturday and Sunday. I think maybe it is because everyone is home and the day flies past me and I find myself wanting to get ready for bed and realizing that I haven't studied the scriptures. That is when temptation really hits me. Again, tonight I am wanting to just hurry and read a verse or something and go to bed, but I know that if I do that tonight that it will be that much easier for me to do it again. I am really trying to make some good habits here because this week has really been great for me and for my learning and I have felt more peace and energy from reading, studying and pondering.
I have moved on to 1 Nephi 6. It is a short chapter, but it says some really comforting things. Nephi talks about why he isn't writing the details of the geneology and that he just desires to use the space up with the things of God. He then says, "For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and teh God of Jacob, and be saved." I think those are really comforting words. It feels very powerful to know that he put so much energy into knowing what God wanted him to write in the plates...and I know that they were written for me and for you and everyone, so that we might be saved. I love feeling that love from olden day Prophets through the scriptures. It made me think about when I write in my journal and the silly things I write about. I wonder if I should be writing more about my testimony. Well, I guess I dont' have to worry so much anymore because maybe that is why I am doing this blog now, for the record of my more spiritual side or my desire anyways. Now I feel even better about writing this blog.
Nephi continues to say in verse 5, "Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world." It was obviously very important for Nephi to make it clear to us that he very seriously only wanted the things of God recorded in the plates. There is such a feeling of purity in his words. It makes the scriptures more pure and precious to be able to know and feel the strong desire he had to really obey God's commands when it to keeping the records. I relate to that concern or those feelings when I think about my children. I want to keep records, memories, and teachings in their minds and written to help them to gain a testimony so they might choose to live righteously. I don't know that I can say I think so deeply about future generations down the road though. It amazes me that Nephi and the other prophets did all this hard work for a people they would never see in their lifetime. They cared so much and it was for us, people who live 100's of years later. We are truly blessed.
Ok, so hopefully I will stay on a schedule tomorrow. I think it helps me to study during the day instead of at night. I feel less focused today and a little more hurried.
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You make think here about D&C 59:21, along with a talk that President Eyring gave a short time ago (http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-775-24,00.html). He speaks about writing in his journal and how he tried to see the Lord's hand in his day to day. Eventually, he found that he would see the Lord's hand in everything.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wonder if Nephi isn't trying to train us, the reader, to do the same thing. D&C 59:21 really makes me think it's a good idea, anyway.
That is an AWESOME talk. I feel very inspired and really want to begin writing down the things daily where I can see the hand of the Lord. THANK YOU for sharing that talk with me. I am really excited.
ReplyDeleteI guess I never thought before of how much training Nephi and other prophets were writing to teach us. But I think you are right, since they were writing for us they would be writing in a way to train the reader.