"Alma and Amulek listened to the angel. They responded to the call to missionary service, and they preached repentance. They stood tall in the face of adversity and imprisonment. They are heroes whose lives are worthy of emulation”
Bishop H. David Burton
“All of us have made wrong turns along the way. I believe the kind and merciful God, whose children we are, will judge us as lightly as He can for the wrongs that we have done and give us the maximum blessing for the good that we do. Alma’s sublime utterance [in Alma 9:26] seems to me an affirmation of this”
President James E. Faust
If you were faced with such anger, hatered, disbelief regarding your beliefs from others who did not believe your faith, how would you react? What kind of courage would be needed to face those people? What could you say that would best help them?
What profound chapters. Very powerful! While reading I thought of the world we live in... It feels like what Alma and Amulek faced with is literally at our door. I do think that the difference in our time is that today’s society (in general) has created a hard heart towards “organized religion” and they have created in their minds that being "spiritual" is worshiping god or a supreme being; however, they do not realize that by such actions they have actually closed the door on god and they created their own rules and said that the commandment of God are not of value. When one follows this pattern described above one will create a larger distance between them and Heavenly Father and it will be easier to offend by His principles, His government, His church, and His missionaries, since it now questions their choices and whose role it is to be god.
ReplyDeleteThe time is at hand – it will take much courage to stand for our beliefs and to be the example that the Lord would like us to be. I hope that I am up for it!