Week 3

This week I was thinking a lot about the temple endowment and other important covenants that we make in our lifetime. It was while thinking about these things that I read 2 Nephi 9: 27,
"But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for awful is his state!"
This might seem like a harsh scripture, but I think that it is mainly trying to get the point of how important the laws and covenants of the church are. We are blessed to be able to know and obey them, but also it is a responsibility that once we acknowledge it, can't be ignored.

As I'm preparing to enter the temple this is especially striking to me, as I am going to be part of an extremely important covenant. While the knowledge and ability to participate is a blessing in my life, but it is also something that shouldn't be taken lightly. This also helped me to realize why we, in the church, will ask someone to stop taking the sacrament or even become excommunicated as part of the repentance process, sometimes it is more beneficial to remove those covenant when someone is breaking them, because of the severity of what that could mean.

I had some interesting thoughts on this that I hadn't necessarily before, and learned a little more about covenants that I hadn't known before, which was really interesting for me, especially from a place like 2nd Nephi, where it feels like I've read it so many times. It really shows that every time you read the scriptures you can gain something new.