1 For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father, yea, even in a dream, and said unto him: Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done; and because thou hast been faithful and declared unto this people the things which I commanded thee, behold, they seek to atake away thy blife.(How comforting...Lehi, because you are doing everything I have asked you to do, your life is threatened!! :) I know that Joseph Smith had simliar things told to him from the Lord! My life has never been threatened from following the Lord, and it might never ever be, but I know that if it were, if hte Lord told me this, I would feel ok! I would know that I was doing what was right, and if I were to die, it would be while I was in the service of my God!!
2 And it came to pass that the Lord acommanded my father, even in a bdream, that he should ctake his family and depart into the wilderness. (He mentions here that it was in a dream that Lehi received this commandment from the Lord! I need to pay attention to my dreams...maybe somewhere in the craziness is something from the Lord???
3 And it came to pass that he was aobedient unto the word of the Lord, wherefore he did as the Lord commanded him.
4 And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and adeparted into the wilderness.(I wonder if this was a sacrifice for Lehi? I wonder if it was hard for him to leave everything behind? I wonder if he was sad at all? I am thinking the answer here is NO!! When your whole life is devoted to the Lord, you know and realize that material things mean nothing. He was doing what the Lord had commanded him! He knew he would be blessed and his family would be blessed! He knew that these things meant nothing to him. I wonder how I would feel if I had to leave everything behind? If I had to go into the wilderness? I would hope that I would have the same reaction as Lehi! Ok! The Lord told me to...so, let's DO IT! Not a sacrifice at all!!!!
5 And he came down by the borders near the shore of the aRed Sea; and he traveled in the wilderness in the borders which are nearer the Red Sea; and he did travel in the wilderness with his family, which consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder brothers, who were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam.
6 And it came to pass that when he had traveled three days in the wilderness, he pitched his tent in a avalley by the side of a briver of water.
7 And it came to pass that he built an aaltar of bstones, and made an coffering unto the Lord, and gave dthanks unto the Lord our God.(We need to thank the LORD more!!!!)
8 And it came to pass that he called the name of the river, Laman, and it emptied into the Red Sea; and the valley was in the borders near the mouth thereof.
9 And when my father saw that the waters of the river emptied into the afountain of the Red Sea, he spake unto Laman, saying: O that thou mightest be like unto this river, continually running into the fountain of all righteousness!
10 And he also spake unto Lemuel: O that thou mightest be like unto this valley, afirm and bsteadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord!
11 Now this he spake because of the astiffneckedness of Laman and Lemuel; for behold they did bmurmur in many things against their cfather, because he was a dvisionary man, and had led them out of the land of Jerusalem, to leave the land of their inheritance, and their gold, and their silver, and their precious things, to perish in the wilderness. And this they said he had done because of the foolish imaginations of his heart.(We can see here that it was DEFINITELY a sacrifice for Lamen and Lemuel!!!)
12 And thus Laman and Lemuel, being the eldest, did murmur against their afather. And they did bmurmur because they cknew not the dealings of that God who had dcreated them.
13 Neither did they abelieve that Jerusalem, that great city, could be bdestroyed according to the words of the prophets. And they were like unto the Jews who were at Jerusalem, who sought to take away the life of my father.
14 And it came to pass that my father did speak unto them in theavalley of Lemuel, with bpower, being filled with the Spirit, until their frames did cshake before him. And he did confound them, that they durst not utter against him; wherefore, they did as he commanded them.
15 And my father dwelt in a atent.(Where is my dwelling placE? Lehi used this tent to pray and ponder. Where do I pray and ponder? Is my house condusive to the Spirit? Can I feel His prescence here? Am I able to dwell here and feel the prescence of the Lord!
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