Today's Favorite Verse: Alma 44:5-6
"And now, Zerahemnah, I command you, in the name of that all-powerful God, who has strengthened our arms that we have gained power over you, by our faith, by our religion, and by our rites of worship, and by our church, and by the sacred support which we owe to our wives and our children, by that liberty which binds us to our lands and our country; yea, and also by the maintenance of the sacred word of God, to which we owe all our happiness; and by all that is most dear unto us -
Yea, and this is not all; I command you by all the desires which ye have for life, that ye deliver up your weapons of war unto us, and we will seek not your blood, but we will spare your lives, if ye will go your way and come not again to war against us."
As the Nephites are at war with the Lamanites the reason they won was because of their faith in God, which strengthened them. They were fighting for their wives and children and liberty. They did not want bloodshed and only proceeded to fall upon the Lamanites when they would not make an oath that they would come no more against them. I cannot help but feel it is a very weak stand people make against wearing a mask in the midst of the pandemic because of their liberties. The consideration of slaying others is not even close to what Moroni did.
Day 1902
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