"The Nephites were inspired by a better cause" to fight, "they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church."
(Alma 43:45)
-What kinds of things are we fighting for today? Who's side are we on?

"this is done unto us because of our religion and our faith in Christ. And now ye see that ye cannot destroy this our faith." (Alma 44:3)
-How can we be this strong? What does it take?

-Being strong doesn't mean we are strong all the time and we don't have weaknesses. It means we believe in the power of our Father in Heaven enough to call upon Him and we have the faith that He will help us as He will. Faith is hard. Believing in things we don't see and trusting in God and in His timing for us. Life isn't hard but I know that it would be so much harder if I didn't have the gospel in my life and a testimony of it.
Fighting our enemy today doesn't mean we have to go put on our heavy metal armor, carry around a heavy sword and go to the battleground to defend our families and our rights. Today fighting our enemy is more spiritual than anything. We must have the strength within ourselves and the faith to ask for help from our Savior who knows what it's like to go through these things and how I feel.
I am so thankful for that. I'm thankful for my Savior that He was willing to Atone for my sins and be my strength so that he could understand exactly what I was going through and feeling. Others around us don't understand in this life, they try and sympathize but the only person we can go to who truly understand and truly can empathize is our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Blessing: Christ understands me and what I'm going to so I am able to turn to Him.

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