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Yep, this journal's still alive. ;]
Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about something that our Home Teacher said to us a couple months ago. "I'm sure that good's obviously going to come from reading the Book of Mormon in general, but I get the feeling that there's more to it. What's going to happen in this next year that's going to make this so important?"
I've really been pondering that thought a lot especially now with the way that the world is currently sabotaging Christ. They are attempting to change who He was and what His purpose is. How fitting that a prophet of God should have instructed us last August to re-read the Book of Mormon. Why then, of all times was this important? As I look on how rapidly the world has changed since then, I can't help but think that this is not just another "coincidence". It was important for us to read the Book of Mormon last year. We needed that extra Testament of Christ to ensure who he really was, not who people throughout time and ages have purported him to be and decided that he is. You know, people are always asking us why we need the Book of Mormon, and this is a perfect example. It's just like the illustration that the missionaries use ... when you nail up a board with one nail, it can still swing back and forth, but once you put that second nail in, it is solid, and immovable. We have that second nail, the Book of Mormon, to hold us steady while the world is wavering, and how lucky we are to have a prophet who can prepare us for such events.
We have the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Grail. We have the "Gospel of Judas". But, really, it only really enforces what we already knew about him. Who knows where these things came from? I honestly haven't looked into any of them much, but what does it change that Christ may have been married to Mary Magdalene? That's no new idea to us. And what would it have changed for Judas to have been asked to do as he did? When you see the big picture and stop getting caught up in all the minute details, it suddenly becomes clear.
What a better time to present the fulness of the Gospel to these people who are doubting and questioning so much?
Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about something that our Home Teacher said to us a couple months ago. "I'm sure that good's obviously going to come from reading the Book of Mormon in general, but I get the feeling that there's more to it. What's going to happen in this next year that's going to make this so important?"
I've really been pondering that thought a lot especially now with the way that the world is currently sabotaging Christ. They are attempting to change who He was and what His purpose is. How fitting that a prophet of God should have instructed us last August to re-read the Book of Mormon. Why then, of all times was this important? As I look on how rapidly the world has changed since then, I can't help but think that this is not just another "coincidence". It was important for us to read the Book of Mormon last year. We needed that extra Testament of Christ to ensure who he really was, not who people throughout time and ages have purported him to be and decided that he is. You know, people are always asking us why we need the Book of Mormon, and this is a perfect example. It's just like the illustration that the missionaries use ... when you nail up a board with one nail, it can still swing back and forth, but once you put that second nail in, it is solid, and immovable. We have that second nail, the Book of Mormon, to hold us steady while the world is wavering, and how lucky we are to have a prophet who can prepare us for such events.
We have the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Grail. We have the "Gospel of Judas". But, really, it only really enforces what we already knew about him. Who knows where these things came from? I honestly haven't looked into any of them much, but what does it change that Christ may have been married to Mary Magdalene? That's no new idea to us. And what would it have changed for Judas to have been asked to do as he did? When you see the big picture and stop getting caught up in all the minute details, it suddenly becomes clear.
What a better time to present the fulness of the Gospel to these people who are doubting and questioning so much?