Elder Devin Durrant's talk here
the scripture our family chose for the week is
I like the phrase GO and DO
we must get up and Go Lekh Lekah
Nephi is like Abraham Gen 12:1-4 The Lord tells Abraham to Go
and by verse 4 Abraham departs. When God speaks he moves
I'll Get up and Go
God Tells Abraham again in Gen 22 to Lekh Lekah and take his son Abraham to the Mountain to sacrifice him. Abraham is faith!
Nephi also
I will try to get up and go when I am asked
DO
When Torah was given at Mount Sinai all Israel said:
"We will do and we will obey" in response of the Lord giving the 10 commandments.
The phrase reminds me of Nephi's response when asked to obey the Lords command.
The Way
he shall prepare a way......
Another name for Christ I have found in scripture is The Way
In 2013 I was pondering and studying about Christ being the Way
The spirit taught me that Christ as "The Way" is his enabling power of his atonement
I always Love the beautiful language of Isaiah
40:28-31
"Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary: there is no searching of his understanding.
he giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (not stop)
On Wednesday of this week - while ponderizing this scripture I found Sariah's reference to the Lord's power. She had been afraid for her sons safety. Yes they had done what the Lord had commanded, but were they still alive? Had a way really been prepared?
The loss of her sons would have been great. In her culture the sons provided for their mothers in their old age. Losing her sons would cause others to think she had been cursed by the Lord
and most of all she just loved her sons!!
Here is her response after they return:
1Nephi 5:8
And she spake, saying: Now I know of a surety that the lord has commanded my husband to flee into the wilderness; yea and I know of a surety that the Lord has protected my sons, and delivered them out of the hands of Laban and given them POWER whereby they could accomplish the thing which the Lord hath commanded them. And after this manner of language did she speak.
Another Day I found that Ben's Missionary scripture from his mission plaque
contained a scripture that is very fitting here:
1Nephi 9:6
But the Lord knoweth all things from the beginning; wherefore, he prepareth a way to accomplish all his works among the children of men; for behold, he hath all power unto the fulfilling of all his words. And thus it is. Amen.
John 1:23 says
Make straight the way of the Lord
Jesus is the way - the path
especially the upward ascension through the temple back to God's presence
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isa. 2:2–3)
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