This week I was reading in 2 Nephi and verse 21 of chapter really struck me. It says, "That these things which I shall write be kept and preserved, and handed down unto my seed, from generation to generation.” I began thinking about the blessing that it is that we are able to have this book that was written so specifically for our day and time, here to guide and help us.
When Nephi and Alma and all the other writers of the Book of Mormon were writing their histories and revelations down, they were doing it for us, for the people in the future that would need those words. They didn't have the entirety of the book with them, they didn't get to read the finished product. But the Lord told them that it needed to be done, so they did it.
The blessing of the Book of Mormon in my life is one that I can take for granted, but as I was thinking about it more deeply this week I realized how much it really does for me. Moroni, while his people and himself were dying, thought only to finish the book, because that is how important it was. Thinking of this reminded me of a question that Ezra Taft Benson told us we should be asking more often in our scripture study, "Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (Or Moroni, or Alma) or any of these writers to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?” I have made it a goal to ask this question more often, and to think of how the Lord truly did inspire those ancient prophets to write the words that we would most need, and that it is a blessing and an amazing privilege to have those revelations so close to us at all times.
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