I don't know about you, but I spend a lot of time thinking about, complaining about, and pointing out my weaknesses to others. I think it's human nature to always look in the mirror and see the flaws, but is that really a bad thing?
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The honest truth is, I have no idea where the Lord is leading me right now. And I have good days, where I can feel the wind pushing me, but the waves and turbulence have calmed. But I also have those days when it feels like the storm is picking up, the waves are crashing, and my boat is tumbling. I have been trying to not let those days get the better of me, but it can be difficult.
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The idea that my own "veil of unbelief" is holding me back from the Lord's blessings has been on my mind a lot this week. In fact, the whole story of the brother of Jared has held some important messages for me this week as I've been contemplating how it might be possible that I could rend that veil of unbelief, because I definitely have one.
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I imagine it was difficult for Mormon as he watched the destruction of his people and wished that he could persuade all to repent. Yet also being so close to the Lord and a prophet, he ultimately knew where things were leading, and it had to be heartbreaking for him.
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Wouldn't it be amazing if, somewhere down the road...say, 100 years or so...people could look back on us at this time and say "There could not be a happier people than those people that were living in 2020."? I thought about that a lot as I was reading the beginning verses of 4 Nephi, and it was one of the messages of this lesson that left me in awe.
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A huge portion of this lesson is Christ's prophecies about the last days. It's amazing to look back over the course of the last 200 years and see how the Lord has been preparing the world for the Savior's return, starting with the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.
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These words, spoken by the Savior, when He saw the faithfulness of the people that were gathered say so much. After all that He had just endured, I can barely imagine how happy it made Him to see the faith of these people, to know that they loved Him and believed.
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The lesson "I Am the Law and the Light" has really taken me on an amazing scripture study journey. I can usually read through the chapters in the first few days of the week and then start going back over it and reading sections and studying more for the rest of the week. That wasn't really the case this week.
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I've read these chapters many times before, but there was something there for me this time that I haven't felt before. I think it all goes back to the messages that we've been hearing from our prophet about how we need to learn to Hear Him.
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Over the last several months it's been a little hard at times to find a reason to lift up my head and be of good cheer, I have to admit. But if there is anything to be learned from the period of time right before the Savior came to the Americas, it's that there is always a reason to have hope and be of good cheer. Even when times are tough.
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I love that this week's lesson is titled Glad Tidings of Great Joy! Even though the message of Samuel the Lamanite starts with a great call to repentance for the Nephites, his message ends on the happy news of Christ's coming.
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The story of Nephi praying on the garden tower, and his plea to those around him to remember the Lord is a story that I tend to forget about. But is there any message in the scriptures more important than to remember the Lord? It's so easy to forget Him, especially when we are distracted by so many things around us.
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