I dropped my son off at preschool at 8:45am. I had decided to go to adult institute this morning but it didn't start until 10am. So I had a little more than 60 minutes to myself!!! Yipee!!
I wanted to make the right choice about what to do with that time.
Go back home and fold laundry?
Go back home and do dishes?
Shopping? My daughter's birthday is coming up and oh how fun it would be to shop BY MYSELF. Target was calling my name!
Go get the oil changed in the car?
The list goes on.
But then the simple, quiet thought came and I knew it was the best choice...
"Go to the church where institute is held. Find a room where you can be by yourself and study the scriptures until class starts."
All of the other choices were good and are things I'm going to need to do at some point, but this was the right decision and I knew it.
I'm so glad I followed that prompting.
Nephi is so cool.
I have read the story of him going to get the brass plates my whole life. But today, he and the Holy Ghost taught me a lesson from that story that is an answer to something I fasted about yesterday and is something I hope will influence me for the rest of my life. It is a lesson I've learned before, but today was somehow different.
Interestingly enough, it was a lesson about following promptings. Nephi followed a prompting he didn't want to follow nor had he ever even considered. Because of his deep faith and trust in God and his ability to hear the Holy Ghost and then act on inspiration his whole posterity was blessed for hundreds of years, as well as you and I.
Can we have that same influence when we follow promptings? The answer is most definitely "yes!" What if the prompting is to do something hard? What if the prompting takes us out of our comfort zone? What if the prompting is something we had never considered before and doesn't necessarily make sense? The answer is still "yes!"
He said this when he was a boy:
"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." 1 Nephi 3:7
He wrote this after a lifetime of learning that obedience works:
"...for thus hath the Lord commanded me, and I must obey. Amen." 2 Nephi 33:15
He is not saying this to mean that he is being forced to obey. He had reached a point in his understanding, faith and trust that he obeyed, period.
Oh the lessons went deeper than that but I'll let you find more on your own. They will mean more and stay with you longer if you do.
We'll see what tomorrow brings.
No comments:
Post a Comment