2 Nephi 7
Chapter 7
Isaiah speaks messianically—The Messiah will have the tongue of the learned—He will give his back to the smiters—He will not be confounded—Compare Isaiah 50. About 559–545 B.C.
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I love verse 8. It has that "Are you looking at me?" sort of feeling- but in a righteous way. It makes me think of the scripture that talks about how they that are with us are greater than they that are with them.
We really are playing on two teams here: The Savior's or the Devil's. That's a bottom-line truth.
To me on the Savior's team takes purposeful righteous choices. Anything less than that puts you on the Adversary's team- even if you choose to do nothing.
I know whose team I want to be on, who I want to stand together with: my Savior, Jacob, Nephi, President Monson, my Bishop, Moses, Adam, Joseph Smith, Paul, my parents, and so on. We are all on the Savior's team- the team we know will triumph in the end. It's a great place to be.
What did you think/learn today?
I think the last verse is actually meaning the opposite of how I am taking it... i think he was taking about selfishness and pride... But I relate to fire analogies. So.....
ReplyDeleteI am choosing to look at the verse this way..... Having been in many actual fires, the smoke gets so incredibly thick, so dark and so black, you cannot see anything. The goal is to search out the fire, the light, the only place you can see.
Once you create a spark of faith, then keep that fire burning brighter. Keep the light bright around you. Look to it. Go to it. Everything else may be black and swirling around you, but the light (faith) is the one thing that will get you to where you want to be.
It may not be what Isaiah meant convey... But it's what his words made me think of. :)