(September 3, 2015)
We
sometimes like to think that, if only we experienced enough miracles, we would
be converted and believe and do everything that we should do. Having experienced miracles in my life, then
losing my testimony, and then regaining it and becoming converted I can tell
you from personal experience that this simply isn’t the way things happen.
Of
course, we have an example of that here.
Abinidi, miraculously, is about to withstand the guards and deliver the
message given to him by God. The moment
he finishes his message, he is condemned to death. You would think, having just seen a miracle,
that Noah might be a little reluctant to execute Abinidi – but he wasn’t.
In
contrast, we see that Alma
was converted, but we read specifically that he was not converted by the miracle
but rather by Abinidi’s words. At most,
the miracle helped to prepare the ground so that Alma
carefully listened to Abinidi’s words but ultimately Alma was converted to the preaching rather
than the miracle. This matches my life
as well.
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