Today's Favorite Verse: Mosiah 20:3-5

Today's Favorite Verse: Mosiah 20:3-5

"And now the priests of king Noah, being ashamed to return to the city of Nephi, yea, and also fearing that the people would slay them, therefore they durst not return to their wives and their children.

And having tarried in the wilderness, and having discovered the daughters of the Lamanites, they laid and watched them;

And when there were but few of them gathered together to dance, they came forth out of their secret places and took them and carried them into the wilderness; yea, twenty and four of the daughters of the Lamanites they carried into the wilderness."

As I pondered over this chapter I keep trying to put my finger on how I could liken it to my day. It is a story of king Noah's priest hiding in the wilderness, afraid to come home to their families. After watching the Lamanites daughters they did the unthinkable and captured them. The end results of their actions caused their families to suffer. The Lamanites went up against king Limhi and his people thinking they were the cause of the loss of their daughters.  It wasn't until the Lamanite king was found wounded among the dead that the people learn the reason the Lamanites attacked them. It was because their daughters had been stolen. Gideon who was King Limhi's captain suggests that maybe this was the doing of king Noah's priests that had escaped into the wilderness.

What finally came to me was the dangers of pornography in our day. King Noah's priest laid in secret watching the Lamanite daughters as they came to sing and to dance. This act lead to even more perverse things. They captured these women to fill their own needs. I could not help but liken that to the sex slave industry that is growing around the world. Pornography is not a victim-less crime, watching leads to other things. It feeds so much evil. It will contribute to the destruction of the family. The other dark end of this is what we see happening in the middle east with women that are being captured and sold. This wicked behavior is causing wars to happen. Now as I ponder on these things I can see the warning messages for our times. No wonder the prophets have spoke out so strongly on the dangers of pornography and the ruin it will bring. 

Day 265 Tami Fitzgerald Harris