(April 15, 2014)
Sometimes I look to the Lord and ask for a miraculous witness of the truth of His great work. This is foolish for a pair of reasons. First, I have had such miraculous witnesses a number of times and yet I still have my times of weakened faith. Second, it is a wicked and faithless people (i.e., me) who seeketh signs. I like to excuse myself by saying that I am just knocking as directed and that I truly want to know so as to have more power to obey (both, I believe, are honestly true), but I still think it demonstrates a weakness in my character.
Contrast that with Alma and what he tells Shiblon. Alma was confronted in a miraculous way by an angel of the Lord. He was converted in a moment of profound repentance, in a coma brought about through the prayers of his father. If ever there was one who had a miracle to convert him, it was Alma. But Alma knows better – he knows that “I would not that ye should think that I know these things of myself, but it is the Spirit of God which is in me which maketh these things known unto me; for if I had not been born of God I should not have known these things.”
No comments:
Post a Comment