Today's Favorite Verse: Mosiah 23:21-23

Today's Favorite Verse: Mosiah 23:21-23

"Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; ye, he trieth their patience and their faith.

Nevertheless - whosoever putteth his trust in him the same shall be lifted up at the last days. Yea, and thus it was with this people.

For behold, I will show unto you that they were brought into bondage, and none could deliver them but the Lord their God, yea, even the God of Abraham and Isaac and of Jacob."

Having left, king Limhi's people were pursed by the Lamanites. The Lamanite army becomes lost and that is when they happen to find the priests of king Noah, that had stolen the Lamanite daughters. These Lamanite daughters are now their wives and they have families. They are living in the land of Amulon named after their leader Amulon. The Lamanite daughters plead with the army not to destroy their husbands and that is how these groups join forces. As a body they try to return to the land of Nephi.

That is when they find the people of Alma. They are a righteous people and the Lord has blessed and prospered them during their 24 years in the land of Helam. They are alarmed when they find the Lamanite army at the border of their land. They had to hush their fears and depend on the Lord to save them. They gave themselves up to the Lamanites and in return were promised to be let go, if they would show the army the way to the land of Nephi.

Once doing that the Lamanites broke their promise and set guards around the people of Alma. The king of the Lamanites granted to Amulon that he would be a king over the land of Helam. I'm sure the land of Helam was much more attractive to them than the land of Amulon had been. The people of Alma had been blessed of the Lord and prospered in their land. We can see how quickly the people in Amulon were to leave their land. 

So now we have a man that hated Alma, and everything he and his people stood for, become king over them. I do know the end of the story, but at this point I reflected on how regardless of our righteousness, we will have our patience and faith tried by the Lord. This is that moment for the people of Alma. Through their faith and trust in the Lord, he will deliver them. Because they are righteous they will pass through this quickly. In the end they will be brought to a better place. 

Day 268 Tami Fitzgerald Harris