(November 13, 2014)
I had
two separate thoughts as I read through these chapters. The first was on Lehi – here was another of
God’s servants toiling tirelessly (if he was as righteous as Nephi, he was
doing well). And yet, we know very
little about him. He served, but he will
never be properly recognized for that even with the Church. But in the eternities, he will have his
reward. This is something I need to
constantly remind myself of – the good we do cannot be done for temporal
purposes. In the first case, we have no
promise that we will receive temporally for our service (except in limited
instances). For the second, when we are
focused on the temporal our service isn’t properly given.
My second
thought was on Nephi. Here he had just
had a miraculous event that he had been privileged to be a part of. And as the crowd separated and went their own
way, he received the visitation that granted him the sealing power. When he had that power, he didn’t rest or
contemplate it – he didn’t wonder whether he should go home and pray about what
had happened. No, he immediately went to
work.
I have
noticed in my own life a tendency (at times – not uniformly) to follow up
spiritual experiences with almost like a spiritual relaxation. It is as though I have received confidence
from the spiritual experience and thus I don’t feel the pressure to give my
life over to the Lord as much. This isn’t
always the case (in fact, I don’t even know that it is usually the case), but
sometimes it is. Instead, though, I need
to remain focused even when I am experiencing spiritual events and use that
increase in power to drive me forward to more acts of service in His name.
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