Jacob 5:26,27 Let us prune it, and dig about it, and nourish it
The interchange between the Lord and the servant is instructive. The Lord suggests that the Lamanites be destroyed for their wickedness. The servant intervenes on their behalf, requesting of the Lord that more work be done to save the wicked part of the tree that perhaps it may bring forth good fruit. This is exactly what happened. In more than one place in the Book of Mormon, the Nephite prophets prayed on behalf of their Lamanite brethren. They prayed that the Lord would show mercy to them in the last days and bring them to a knowledge of the truth.
'And after I, Enos, had heard these words, my faith began to be unshaken in the Lord; and I prayed unto him with many long strugglings for my brethren, the Lamanites...
And now behold, this was the desire which I desired of him--that if it should so be, that my people, the Nephites, should fall into transgression, and by any means be destroyed, and the Lamanites should not be destroyed, that the Lord God would preserve a record of my people, the Nephites; even if it so be by the power of his holy arm, that it might be brought forth at some future day unto the Lamanites, that, perhaps, they might be brought unto salvation-' (Enos 1:11,13)
'And behold, these things which we have desired concerning our brethren, yea, even their restoration to the knowledge of Christ, are according to the prayers of all the saints who have dwelt in the land.' (Mormon 9:36)*
-This to me means we need to not give up on anyone, those we visit or home teach that don't want us to or like us to come visit, friends and family who are against the church, or others God puts in our path.
Its interesting while reading this story I had the thought, our Savior has a lot of patience in this alagory of taking care of the trees even when His servent doesn't see any growth in the tree. That could be like each of us. Our Savior sees potential in each of us especially when he has worked so hard and done all that was needed for us to return to live with God. We must like it talks about in Alma need to plant our Faith in a good soil in order to continue to grow.
I think that is key. If we don't have out seed or our faith planted in something that will allow it to grow then it will just die. We must put our faith in our Only Begotten Savior Jesus Christ.
Blessing- Christ never forgets us or leave us to do things on our own but He is always there to help us and strengthen what little faith we might have.
The interchange between the Lord and the servant is instructive. The Lord suggests that the Lamanites be destroyed for their wickedness. The servant intervenes on their behalf, requesting of the Lord that more work be done to save the wicked part of the tree that perhaps it may bring forth good fruit. This is exactly what happened. In more than one place in the Book of Mormon, the Nephite prophets prayed on behalf of their Lamanite brethren. They prayed that the Lord would show mercy to them in the last days and bring them to a knowledge of the truth.
'And after I, Enos, had heard these words, my faith began to be unshaken in the Lord; and I prayed unto him with many long strugglings for my brethren, the Lamanites...
And now behold, this was the desire which I desired of him--that if it should so be, that my people, the Nephites, should fall into transgression, and by any means be destroyed, and the Lamanites should not be destroyed, that the Lord God would preserve a record of my people, the Nephites; even if it so be by the power of his holy arm, that it might be brought forth at some future day unto the Lamanites, that, perhaps, they might be brought unto salvation-' (Enos 1:11,13)
'And behold, these things which we have desired concerning our brethren, yea, even their restoration to the knowledge of Christ, are according to the prayers of all the saints who have dwelt in the land.' (Mormon 9:36)*
-This to me means we need to not give up on anyone, those we visit or home teach that don't want us to or like us to come visit, friends and family who are against the church, or others God puts in our path.
Its interesting while reading this story I had the thought, our Savior has a lot of patience in this alagory of taking care of the trees even when His servent doesn't see any growth in the tree. That could be like each of us. Our Savior sees potential in each of us especially when he has worked so hard and done all that was needed for us to return to live with God. We must like it talks about in Alma need to plant our Faith in a good soil in order to continue to grow.
I think that is key. If we don't have out seed or our faith planted in something that will allow it to grow then it will just die. We must put our faith in our Only Begotten Savior Jesus Christ.
Blessing- Christ never forgets us or leave us to do things on our own but He is always there to help us and strengthen what little faith we might have.
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