Can I start out by saying that Isaiah is so HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND! I have to read and reread. Also I have found that the Book of Mormon is more understandable to me when I study the Old Testament. They go hand in hand. Nephi is Jacob and Joseph's ancestor so it is just the story continuing. Perhaps I need to study it (Old Testament) better.
I actually was reading the Old Testament a lot in 2014 and then I got a little confused and bored so I stopped but I must continue!! I think it will benefit my Book of Mormon studies oh so much.
Any who, the reason I brought up Isaiah is because Nephi quotes Isaiah a ton in his writings and it all begins in 1 Nephi chapter 20.
Like I said, I have a hard time with Isaiah but there were a few scriptures from this chapter that stood out to me and the spirit touched my spirit as I read them:
:16- Come ye near unto me; I have not spoken in secret; from the beginning, from the time that it was declared have I spoken; and the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
The Lord may have sent us to this earth with no memory of where we came from, but He has certainly supplied us with sources of knowledge, and to top off the knowledge, he has given us our conscious. So in other words, we know right from wrong. And the thing that I love love love in my own life when as I come unto Christ is (drum roll please):
:18- O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments—then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.
PEACE.
The other day I got the opportunity to go to the temple and witness a friend of mine and her husband go through the temple for the first time. I felt joy for her and her husband and their decision to take that step in their lives, but the thing that I loved most about sitting in the walls of the Temple, was the constant peace I felt while I was there. It. was. wonderful.
Love,
Becky joy
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