So I decided to start my 30 day challenge by starting the Book of Mormon over again.
My first comment is from 1 Nephi Chapter 8 - Lehi's vision. It's funny to come upon this again as I have thought about this vision so frequently in recent weeks and how it applies to me today. I don't think I have ever had a time in my life where the mocking and scoffing of those in the great and spacious building has been more real. Yes, I was teased many times for what I believed as a child; but now it is different because the people who are scoffing are those who were once in the church, those who once held to the rod. The rod is the word of God (the scriptures), that was the only thing that could get them through the mists of darkness and keep them from falling into the river. (That's why we are actually taking this challenge right? to strengthen our hold on the rod?)
Then when I reached Chapter 15:27 where Nephi was explaining to his brothers the representations in his father's vision he says, "And I said unto them that the water which my father saw was filthiness; and so much was his mind swallowed up in other things, that he beheld not the filthiness of the water." This was a prophet of God and his mind was caught up that he saw not the filthiness of the water....what was his mind caught up in? his son's not coming to the tree? them getting lost in the darkness? or the people mocking from the spacious building? To me this said, you can become fixated on a myriad of things going on around you, and miss the filthiness of the water (or of those things that surround you) even if you are a devoted follower of the Savior. We live in a day where some may say "All is well in Zion" and maybe that is what the symbolism was of Lehi not seeing the filthiness of the water.
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