spiritual sunday- We are as the army of Heleman

(Via my journal on September 12)

           "What I want to talk about a little is the 2,000 stripling warriors. I was just imagining what it would be like to be one of the Nephites who fought along side them, what it would be like to see the miracles of not one of them being killed and the incredible strength of their faith. I think I would have believed that I could be delivered as they were delivered because they did not doubt. I think I would have tried to follow their example and not doubt but be saved. Thinking these things made me think of the war that I fight every day. The war against Satan, against sin and temptation. I can follow the example of the stripling warriors even though I do not fight along side them. I like how Heleman calls them his sons and then tells his actual sons to be like them in Heleman 5:12 'And now my sons, remember, remember, that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundations; that when the devil shall send forth His mighty winds yea, His shafts in the whirlwind, yea when all His hail and His mighty storms shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if me build they cannot fail.' Truly the 2,000 stripling warriors lived this principle and they never fell and so must we in our personal war against sin."

Hopefully you found something worth while in this post. I know that hard times will come and we must be faithful in order to have the protection we need to be delivered. Amen.