(October 29, 2014)
The war
chapters are profound symbols for the war that is currently going on in each of
our lives – the continuation of the War in Heaven. I was drawn to the wisdom of Moroni
when he took the city of Gid and immediately
began making additional preparations to defend not only those cities but also
Mulek and Bountiful
as well.
When we
make progress in our lives, Satan will not just concede the ground. He fights for our souls just as hard as the
Lord does. He is not idle, nor does he
admit defeat (Satan is bound up in his pride). When we take a piece of ground, in my
experience, we can expect a global assault almost immediately thereafter.
When we
abandon a habit or a vice, when our minds are opened or our testimonies
increased, we will find ourselves refighting battles long since won. If we have not, in the intervening years,
continually improved our fortifications, we may find ourselves disrupted or
destroyed by these attacks. We must
constantly be on guard – we are never perfected, only protected, in mortality.
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