This weeks reading is as follows:Sunday: Mosiah 28:7- Mosiah 29:13
Monday: Mosiah 29:14-47
Tuesday: Alma 1:1-12
Wednesday: Alma 1:13- Alma 2:15
Thursday: Alma 2:16- Alma 3:5
Friday: Alma 3:6 - Alma 4:5
Saturday: Alma 4:6 - Alma 5:3
Reading Ideas: This month the High Priests Group will be sharing the reading ideas.
4 comments:
I love the story of Alma the younger and the sons of Mosiah. They had an angel of the Lord admonish them to repent and come unto Christ. They repented and then became representatives of the Savior. Most of us don't have angels appear to us but we do have latter day prophets and apostles, stake presidents, bishops and parents that instruct us on what we should be doing. I appreciate the example of Alma the younger and the sons of Mosiah. They repented and sinned no more. What a great example for our day.
Bishop
I always had a problem with the statement 'Go and sin no more'. Did they really not sin anymore? I know we have the blessing of the atonement, but what does this really mean?
I like this explanation by Orson F. Whitney, "A man sins when he violates his conscience, going contrary to light and knowledge...Up to that point, he only blunders." I'll bet Alma blundered. Maybe he was testy with his wife after that long trip to Ammonihah. :) That would be a blunder. Let's say it would be really interesting for me to look up the life cycle of a muskrat on a Sunday afternoon, but I "know" there are "better" things I could be doing. Since I "know" I could be doing something better, that would be a sin in my case. Knowledge is a critical part of the equation when it comes to sin. If I don't know any better, I get off a little easier. If we're not sinning, we're probably blundering. No one can be perfect in this life, anyway. Even Jesus Christ did not refer to himself as perfect until after He had risen again. (Perfect also means complete, but I digress.) As long as we're trying, God, like the loving parent He is, will give us a cookie. Or some like reward. :)
In Primary today, we talked about how exciting it would be to have one of the Book of Mormon prophets as your Primary teacher and that we have an opportunity to learn from those prophets today as we study the scriptures. One of the children mentioned they wouldn't want Alma the Younger to be their teacher because he made bad choices before he made good choices. I, however, love seeing that transformation in him. It is comforting to know that all of us have the ability to do tremendous good, even if we have first been colossal sinners.
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