I read Alma 7-8, I love chapter 7 it reminds me how much my Savior truly does love me and cares about me. I love verses 11-13 because it helps me to put things in perspective. I mean I will never fully understand what Christ had to go through for me and for all of us but I love learning about it and learning that He did it "ALL" in order for us to return to live with God. But not only that but that HE knows what it is like for me to suffer and have trials and temptations and that He has felt it and knows how I feel. Nobody has ever lived the life I have lived and understand except Him.
Some of Christ's attributes that I need to work on are mentioned in Alma 7:23, "should being humble, and be submissive and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and long suffering; being temperate in all things; being diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times;" The last things that really stood out to me in these chapters were being "...faithful in keeping the commandments of God..." (8:15), and that "he returned speedily" (8:18). How often does it take me forever to go and do something that the Lord has commanded me to do? I need to do His work first and foremost. Alma 8:26 when Amulek fed Alma and cross referenced it to Matt. 25:35-40 when Christ talks about serving others as if they were Him.

"The words 'sin' or 'sins' do not appear anywhere in those two verses [Alma 7:11-12]. But notice the other words—things in addition to sins that Jesus took upon him: pains, afflictions, temptations, sicknesses, and infirmities. Alma and Amulek must have relied on the Atonement of Christ to get them through the sadness, the nightmares, and the emotional trauma of the tragedy in Ammonihah. We must rely on the Atonement to help us through our personal tragedies as well." -John Bytheway
Blessing: I'm able to learn by the spirit for my personal well being and for school work. He helps me remember.

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