Mosiah 28

(March 13, 2015)

                I lose track of just what an amazing and selfless thing it was for Mosiah to have given the records to Alma the Younger.  With our understanding of the social implications of possessing a codex, the possession of these sacred records was a huge, huge deal.  Mosiah, having held these records, could easily have given them one of his sons.  Instead he gave them to Alma the Younger.  Not even Alma the Elder, who was still alive at this time, but Alma the Younger.

                Presumably there was revelation involved in that decision (and how impressive it is that Mosiah was sensitive to and follow that revelation), but it is easy to see why the Lord went the way that He did with the records.  Alma the Elder wasn’t long for the world, and the sons of Mosiah had a mission that they needed to perform (would they have gone to the Lamanites had one of them been in charge of the records? – doubtful).

                It just goes to show, once again, that the Lord has a perfect plan that will all go to our benefit it we are humble enough to follow it and put Him first above all else in my life.