Nephi had received revelation and knew he was capable of doing so. Yet, when his father claimed to have received revelation for Nephi, he did not hesitate to obey. Laman and Lemuel murmured that it was a hard thing to to back and retrieve the brass plates from Laban. Nephi, because of his willingness to obey in faith, was promised favor of the Lord.
When Laban refused to give up the plates. L & L wanted to return to their parents. Nephi's response was that they had not been sent just to try and that he would continue and not return until they had succeeded.
In the Celestial Room of the temple several of us stood around to discuss impressions we had received, last night. One sister counted the number of times the word "covenant" was mentioned in the endowment session - she counted 39 times. It is obvious that covenant keeping is important to the Lord.
Perhaps I need to tune up my covenant keeping and not just try, but, like Nephi, press on to complete success, even when complete success may not come until I endure to the end.
I've been thinking about God's omnipotence lately. He knows each of us completely perfectly. He knows the beginning from the end. Part of His all knowing power is knowing when each of us will make covenants and how deeply we will be committed to them when we make the covenant, and each day after.
ReplyDeleteThe covenants I've made are between myself and God, and between Micah, myself, and God.
I'm grateful for that omnipotent portion of my covenants because it reminds me that God has faith in us (but faith doesn't seem like the right word...) that we will try and try again to up our covenant keeping skills.
Otherwise he wouldn't enter in to covenants with us.
We can do it, really.