Mosiah 10:10 … We did go up in the strength of the Lord.
The Lord is where true strength comes from, whether we are Ammon and his brothers going into hostile land to bring good news, or a 2nd grader who needs a friend. We need the Lord and we need to trust him. “Lift up your heads, and rejoice, and put your trust in God.” The Lord knows our burdens and he is just as aware today as he was in biblical times. We have access to all the same miracles. Our Red Sea May look different, but with faith, trust, and obedience, it too can part. “Put your trust in God, in that God who was the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and also, that God who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, and caused that they should walk through the Red Sea on dry ground, and fed them with manna that they might not perish in the wilderness; and many more things did he do for them.” (Mosiah 7:19)
Mosiah 7:18 … lift up your heads and be comforted.
It takes trust to build trust. How are to know that God is near if we never give ourselves a chance to feel Him? How are going to know that he can lift burdens if we never hand him the burdens? How are to trust His plans if we never follow them?
The Lord doesn’t abandon us, we walk away from Him.
His love is full and always available to those who choose to follow him. “I will not succor my people in the day of their transgression; but I will hedge up their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a stumbling block before them.” (Mosiah 7:29) “But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.”( Mosiah 7:33)
Once we have made the choice to follow the Lord with “full purpose of heart”, then it is our responsibility to “return everyone unto his home,” (Mosiah 8:4) and live the gospel, sharing the comfort and relief with others who may desire to have the Lord’s hand in their life. “When I saw that which was good among them I was desirous that they should not be destroyed.” Mosiah 9:1) It is important that we see others as the Lord sees them, that will always shine the brightest light into their lives, and help them to recognize the darkness they are in. We are all from the same flock, with the same shepherd. “He is our shepherd and He has set up a perfect, flawless plan to help us through mortality. “O how marvelous are the works of the Lord!” (Mosiah 8:20) The adversary it real and desires nothing more than to steal our hearts from the Lord, so that we can be lost, “they are as a wild flock which fleeth from the shepherd, and scattereth, and are driven, and are devoured by the beasts of the forest.” Mosiah 8:21) Which is why as we lose sight of our eternal perspective God allows us to feel the heaviness of being left to our own strength, “smitten with famine and sore afflictions; for we were slow to remember the Lord our God.” (Mosiah 9:3) We need the Lord, “I did stimulate them to go to battle with their might, putting their trust in the Lord.” (Mosiah 10:19)
“In God’s kingdom, greatness and leadership means seeing others as they truly are—as God sees them—and then reaching out and ministering to them. It means rejoicing with those who are happy, weeping with those who grieve, lifting up those in distress, and loving our neighbor as Christ loves us. The Savior loves all of God’s children regardless of their socioeconomic circumstance, race, religion, language, political orientation, nationality, or any other grouping. And so should we!” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf April 2017
Mosiah 9: 17 Yea, in the strength of the Lord did we go forth to battle against the Lamanites; for I and my people did cry mightily to the Lord that he would deliver us out of the hands of our enemies, for we were awakened to a remembrance of the deliverance of our fathers.
18 And God did hear our cries and did answer our prayers; and we did go forth in his might; yea, we did go forth against the Lamanites, and in one day and a night we did slay three thousand and forty-three; we did slay them even until we had driven them out of our land.
I personally am thankful for my trials because they have built an unshakeable trust in the Lord. Storms will continue to come into each of our lives, we just need to build a storm shelter in Christ!
-written by Sherri Jorgensen
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