Mosiah 15
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Happy Monday!!
This chapter is a great way to start off the week--like starting off the morning with a huge, healthy breakfast. There's so much good stuff in here: Justification and mercy, resurrection, little children are save, the Father and Son are separate, redemption. I could write about them all! But, I won't.
Verses 6-9, especially 9, are my favorite verses in this chapter. They speak to our Savior, the Atonement, and His role in the Plan of Salvation.
Vs 7- "the will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father." Notice in this verse how the word IN is used, rather than BY. It didn't say that Jesus's will was swallowed by God's will. That would imply that God's will is overtaking the Son's, as if it were God's doing. But, it says in. That tells me that it was Jesus's doing to put His will in line with His Father's.
That is one of the greatest reasons we are here: to align our will with God's. And someday our we will be so good at it that now only will our will be in line with God's, but it will be swallowed up in His will.
I love the imagery in verse 9 of the Savior ascending to His place in the heavens, standing in between us and justice. I don't visualize Him between us and God, for God is always approachable, but Jesus Christ stands between us and certain death. He is the life boat that will save us from this sinking ship of mortality, and all we have to do is listen to His directions and follow them. How grateful I am to Him!!
And how grateful I am to God that He has appointed prophets to make this known to us--even prophets such as Abinidi that lived 2200 years ago. Truth is truth regardless of time, and Abinidi's words are as true now as they were then.
I also love how Abinidi made sure they understood that little children are saved. I wonder if anyone hearing that had children at the time.
Chapters like this do make me want to 'break forth into joy' and sing together! Doesn't it?
Happy Monday!!
This chapter is a great way to start off the week--like starting off the morning with a huge, healthy breakfast. There's so much good stuff in here: Justification and mercy, resurrection, little children are save, the Father and Son are separate, redemption. I could write about them all! But, I won't.
Verses 6-9, especially 9, are my favorite verses in this chapter. They speak to our Savior, the Atonement, and His role in the Plan of Salvation.
Vs 7- "the will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father." Notice in this verse how the word IN is used, rather than BY. It didn't say that Jesus's will was swallowed by God's will. That would imply that God's will is overtaking the Son's, as if it were God's doing. But, it says in. That tells me that it was Jesus's doing to put His will in line with His Father's.
That is one of the greatest reasons we are here: to align our will with God's. And someday our we will be so good at it that now only will our will be in line with God's, but it will be swallowed up in His will.
I love the imagery in verse 9 of the Savior ascending to His place in the heavens, standing in between us and justice. I don't visualize Him between us and God, for God is always approachable, but Jesus Christ stands between us and certain death. He is the life boat that will save us from this sinking ship of mortality, and all we have to do is listen to His directions and follow them. How grateful I am to Him!!
And how grateful I am to God that He has appointed prophets to make this known to us--even prophets such as Abinidi that lived 2200 years ago. Truth is truth regardless of time, and Abinidi's words are as true now as they were then.
I also love how Abinidi made sure they understood that little children are saved. I wonder if anyone hearing that had children at the time.
Chapters like this do make me want to 'break forth into joy' and sing together! Doesn't it?
This while chapter is full of joy! vs14 This is what I want said of me!
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