Having mercy and truly understanding what God wants us to do and how to help others is so important. We are all in our own war for our own lives and we need to be able to stand up to those temptations around us and fight will all our might knowing that God is on our side and we will always win. Alma 52-53 I love chapter 53 because it gets into one of my favorite Book of Mormon stories of the two thousand stripling warriors. I love their willingness to go out and defend their country, family, and freedom. It talks about them as being;
"...exceedingly valiant for courage,"
"true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted/"
"men of truth and soberness,"
"they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him." Alma 53:20-21
These are all very important qualities and things to work on in our lives to that we can truly be an instrument in the hand of our God.

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