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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I love the message that Mormon shares about building our foundation upon the rock of our redeemer. I need to be consistent in my scripture study, prayer, and personal worship. I need to nurture my testimony and my relationship with the Savior every single day.
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The story of the Army of Helaman is probably one of the most well known and loved stories of the Book of Mormon. The idea that more than 2000 warriors could be "preserved by His marvelous power" because of their faith is awe inspiring.
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Standing firm in the faith of Christ will not mean life is free of conflict or trial, but it does mean having the strength to continue on in the face of that conflict, to know which side you are on, and that there is a loving Heavenly Father that will always lead us in the direction we need to go.
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Alma's lesson about the great plan of happiness is definitely one of the most well known sections of the Book of Mormon. We've all heard the phrase "wickedness never was happiness" more often than we can probably count. But the true message of Alma's teachings about the great plan of happiness is that even for those that make mistakes and DO chose wickedness (which is all of us, at some point) there is a beautiful way to come back.
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