1 Nephi 18:23
New Life -Go Forth
What
23 And
it came to pass that after we had sailed for the space of many days
we did arrive at the promised
land;
and we went forth upon the land, and did pitch our tents; and we did
call it the promised land.
1-It
took many days or a long time on the ship to get to the promised
land.
2-They
set up their tents and settled in.
3-They
called it the Promised Land.
Why
Their
journey was over and they reached their destination, They were
ready to begin their new
lives in their new land.
They all must have been excited to be on solid ground again and to
see the new home they had been given. Their faith was rewarded.
Pattern
Genesis
12:11 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis 12:7
7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
Genesis 13
14 ¶And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
16 And
I will make thy seed as
the dust of
the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the
earth, then shall
thy seed also be numbered.
17 Arise,
walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it unto thee.
18 Then
Abram removed his tent,
and came and dwelt in
the plain of
Mamre, which is in Hebron,
and built there an altar unto
the Lord.
3 Sojourn in
this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee;
for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries,
and I will perform the oath which
I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Exodus 32 (to Moses)
13 Remember a
Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by
thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will c multiply your
seed as
the stars of heaven, and all this land that
I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall
inherit it
for
ever.
Chronicles
16 (to David)
Christ
2
Nephi 3:2
2
And may the Lord consecrate also unto thee this land,
which is a most precious land, for thine inheritance and the
inheritance of thy seed with thy brethren, for thy security forever,
if it so be that ye shall keep the commandments of the Holy One of
Israel.
The
earth is the Lord's and He has power to give it. He gives special
portions of it to those who keep His commandments.
Conference
10/02
Dallin H. Oaks
I'll
go Where You Want Me To Go
The
full measure of [our] conversion to men and women of God happens best
through our labors in His vineyard.
Penned
by a poetess who was not a Latter-day Saint, these words express the
commitment of the faithful children of God in all ages.
Abraham,
who led Isaac on that heartbreaking journey to Mount Moriah,
was faithfully going where the Lord wanted him to go (see Gen.
22).
So was David when he stepped out before the hosts of Israel to answer
the challenge of the giant Goliath (see 1
Sam. 17).
Esther, inspired to save her people, walked a life-threatening path
to challenge the king in his inner court (see Esth.
4–5).
“I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord” was the motivation
for Lehi to leave Jerusalem (see 1
Ne. 2)
and for his son Nephi to return for the precious records (see 1
Ne. 3).
Hundreds of other scriptural examples can be cited.
...Still,
there is room for improvement in the commitment of some. When I ask
stake presidents for suggestions on subjects I should treat at stake
conferences, I often hear about members who refuse Church callings or
accept callings and fail to fulfill their responsibilities. Some are
not committed and faithful. It has always been so. But this is not
without consequence.
The
Savior spoke of the contrast between the faithful and the unfaithful
in three great parables recorded in the 25th chapter of Matthew. Half
of the invited guests were excluded from the wedding feast because
they were unprepared when the bridegroom came (see Matt.
25:1–13).
The unprofitable servants who failed to employ the talents they were
given by the Master were not allowed to enter into the joy of the
Lord (see Matt.
25:14–30).
And when the Lord came in His glory, He separated the sheep, who had
served Him and their fellowmen, from the goats, who had not. Only
those who had “done it unto one of the least of these my brethren”
(Matt.
25:40)
were set on His right hand to inherit the kingdom prepared from the
foundation of the world (see Matt.
25:31–46).
My
brothers and sisters, if you are delinquent in commitment, please
consider who it is you are refusing or neglecting to serve when you
decline a calling or when you accept, promise, and fail to
fulfill. I pray that each of us will follow this inspired
declaration:
I
testify of Jesus Christ, who beckons us to His path and His service,
and pray that we will have the faith and commitment to follow and the
power to be what He wants us to be, in the name of Jesus Christ,
amen.
Apply
Nephi
and his family had a new life in a new place where they could
start all over again and to be free to live the gospel .
Just
as Nephi and his followers went where they were called to go and did
all they could to spread the gospel so should we go where we are
called and “set up our tents” In other words to act in the office
of our callings and not be wishing we were somewhere else being
served or serving in a more visible place. Magnify your calling
whatever it is and “bloom where you are planted”. Put your
whole heart into it and go forward.
Hymns
270-I'll
Go Where You Want Me To Go
D&C
4: 2 Therefore,
O ye that embark in the a service of
God, see that ye serve him
with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand
blameless before
God at the last day.
1
Nephi 3:7
7 And
it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go
and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the
Lord giveth no bcommandments unto
the children of men, save he shall prepare
a
way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth
them.
Children
164-I
will Follow God's Plan For Me
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