What life lessons can I take from this chapter?
What does this chapter teach me about my Savior?
How can I apply what I've learned this week?
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS TO PONDER
Reread Vs. 1-5. What do we learn about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ from this admonition? What does this teach us about the relationship the Savior would like us to have with our fellowmen?
Reread Vs. 7-8. The Lord admonishes us to ask, seek, and to knock. Why do you think He uses these three different verbs? Do they mean the same thing or do they symbolize something different?
Reread Vs. 12. What does the Savior mean when He says "This is the law and the prophets"? What is one way you can apply this principle in your life this week?
Just a quick thought for me this time, because I feel like if I do more, I might feel that this blog belongs only to Becca and myself. ;) LOL
ReplyDeleteThe ask, seek and knock question. Super funny. I guess I picture that if I am at someones house and I KNOW they are home. I would ask, seek and knock... or in other words, be more persistent. If we know a plug can fit in an outlet, we will push much harder to get it in the outlet and try lots of things to get it to work if we know it can.
Likewise, if we know the Savior is there... we will demonstrate that NATURALLY, through persistence. I think he wants our knowledge and testimony of him first... then the natural flow of persistence will follow. :) It reminds me of when I send my husband to find something unusual at the grocery store... he doesn't think he will be able to find it because he isn't familiar with that item... and usually would come home and say it wasn't there. (I should have used a personal example... don't tell!) Meaning, it's hard to find something we are not sure even exists. If I, on the other hand, would have read in a magazine that the item was at Store A, for instance, I would be more determined to find it... and I would ask, seek and knock in order to find it.
So much for brief. Where is everyone else's comments?! :)
I find the verses telling us to not be so critical of others very helpful. To first fix ourselves. He doesn't tell us to NOT help others, but maybe by fixing ourselves first we will be more helpful and less critical.
ReplyDeleteI've had an experience recently that brings this home to me. I have a young person in my life that I find difficult to get along with. But for some reason lately, things have come back to my remembrance of dumb things I did at her age. (As if the Lord were trying to help me look at things a little differently.) I feel this has made me a little more understanding and compassionate and a little less critical of her.
As the scripture says, "For what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged." I really don't want to be judged by the Lord as I have judged her. Time to pick that beam out of my own eye.
Wow I love your comments Sue Ellen that is so true.
ReplyDeleteI realized I commented on the wrong chapter.
Here is my comment on 3 Nephi 14
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat;
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
I think sometimes we justify things because so many other people aren't worried about keeping certain commandments. I think Christ makes it clear that there will be few that are diligently trying to keep the commandments. We need to have faith like President Monson has asked and be willing to stand alone.
3 Nephi 13
I loved these verses:
22 The alight of the body is the beye; if, therefore, thine eye be csingle, thy whole body shall be full of light.
I so believe that when you are striving for righteousness and reading the scriptures your eyes will be full of light. Now that doesn't mean you won't be sad sometimes but we can work through it when we feel the light of the Savior in our whole body.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
I have always had a belief that you can look anyone, especially a teenager, in their eye and know if they are doing good things. This scripture says that is true.
24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
We are so good at fooling ourselves that our sins don't separate us from God. We can't choose to sin and think it won't affect us. We have to keep ourselves unspotted from the world. I think it is a daily struggle.