(April 12, 2014)
There are a number of things in this chapter that caught my attention, but the one that I want to address is found in the penultimate verse. How many times are we confronted with the exact same choice that the humble Zoramites are confronted with? We have been wrongly accused, and we are persecuted for things that we have done correctly or things that are out of our control. The temptation in situations like that is to lash out, to defend ourselves, or to do something similar. And yet, that is not the correct way to behave. Amulek gives wise counsel here that if we engage in these sorts of behaviors, we put our own souls at risk and we become the very type of people that hurts us. That is the greatest problem with sin – it encourages others to sin in recompense. And that is the great challenge of turning the other cheek and why it is so necessary.
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