Friday, September 5, 2008
My Hopes
My hope for this blog is to share ideas, and be able to talk about the spiritual side of life, get, give ideas for raising my family. In my side bar, I have the scriptures, one chapter will come up every day, and all I have to do is click on it, and read it. I thoroughly enjoy this, because it is there with one click of the keyboard(no excuses!). Today I read the second chapter of Nephi. Lehi was a father who wanted only the best for his family, and wanted to obey the lord. Isn't that all we want? To be able to have the faith so whatever the Lord asks of us, we will not question, we will do it, and every parent wants the best for their children. There have been so many prayers of mine answered in my life that led me to trials, and overcoming a weakness of mine. Had I known the trials that followed those answered prayers, would I still have obeyed?
Thursday, September 4, 2008
1st Nephi Chapter 1
What do we know about Nephi? Nephi was a scholar, a great hunter, a blacksmith, a shipbuilder, a navigator , a goldsmith, a record keeper, a refugee, a temple builder, a king, a warrior, a prophet, and a seer. Do you think a man with that kind of experience could teach us something about life?
I'm really excited, because I am going to start the book of mormon over again, and hopefully be able to study each chapter, for at least 20 minutes a day. Because I sit down at the computer every day, this I should be able to accomplish. Today, I read chapter one, and of course this is probably the most familiar verse to me(mostly because I start to read the B of M a lot:)). The verses that stuck out to me are: Verse 6 .........and because of the things which he saw and heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly. The reason this stuck out to me, is because I have had this feeling. I think everyone has, but sometimes we don't want to recognize it, or want to ignore it, but I very much had this feeling yesterday, when I was hit with the realization, that we are in a war against satan, and as long as I'm awake, I am going to make him wish I were asleep. How often do we sleep walk through this life. We are so caught up in the materialist things of this world that have no value in the eyes of our Lord. I don't want to be called a hypocrite, because there are things that I love that are definitely considered materialistic, but I hope and pray that they will not become who I am as a daughter of god. My kids need me to suit them up for a war in their armor, these are the latter days. verse 12 says: And it came to pass that as he read, he was filled with the Spirit of the Lord. We know when we are feeling the spirit of the Lord, and do we feel him as much as we need too?
verse 20......I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance. Because I have been so aware of the trials that I have seen my dear family and friends and myself go through I know this to be true. The Lord knows we have our agency, but he also loves us, and although we are not always doing what we know we should, he shows us his tender mercies because we believe he is there, we have the faith that is all he asks of us is that we prove to him that we know he is there, and we try each and every day to become more like him.
I'm really excited, because I am going to start the book of mormon over again, and hopefully be able to study each chapter, for at least 20 minutes a day. Because I sit down at the computer every day, this I should be able to accomplish. Today, I read chapter one, and of course this is probably the most familiar verse to me(mostly because I start to read the B of M a lot:)). The verses that stuck out to me are: Verse 6 .........and because of the things which he saw and heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly. The reason this stuck out to me, is because I have had this feeling. I think everyone has, but sometimes we don't want to recognize it, or want to ignore it, but I very much had this feeling yesterday, when I was hit with the realization, that we are in a war against satan, and as long as I'm awake, I am going to make him wish I were asleep. How often do we sleep walk through this life. We are so caught up in the materialist things of this world that have no value in the eyes of our Lord. I don't want to be called a hypocrite, because there are things that I love that are definitely considered materialistic, but I hope and pray that they will not become who I am as a daughter of god. My kids need me to suit them up for a war in their armor, these are the latter days. verse 12 says: And it came to pass that as he read, he was filled with the Spirit of the Lord. We know when we are feeling the spirit of the Lord, and do we feel him as much as we need too?
verse 20......I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance. Because I have been so aware of the trials that I have seen my dear family and friends and myself go through I know this to be true. The Lord knows we have our agency, but he also loves us, and although we are not always doing what we know we should, he shows us his tender mercies because we believe he is there, we have the faith that is all he asks of us is that we prove to him that we know he is there, and we try each and every day to become more like him.
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