Week 13

This week, I was reading in Alma and thinking a lot about obedience, something so simple yet something we sometimes make out as so hard. It was kind of a strange thing that led me to think so much about this. In Alma chapter 20 verses 5 and 6 it says, "And Ammon said unto him: No one hath told me, save it be God; and he said unto me- Go and deliver they brethren, for they are in prison in the land of Middoni. Now when Lamoni had heard this he caused that his servants should make ready his horses and his chariots."

King Lamoni was so simply and unquestionably obedient in this moment. He didn't ask questions or wonder if this was the smart thing to do, or suggest maybe having a slightly better plan first. God had told Ammon it needed to be done, and Lamoni trusted that God would help them to do it. This is the kind of obedience that we should all be striving for. In Sunday school this past week, someone was sharing how they were trying to work on acting on impulses. Not bad impulses, but any time he got the feeling to do something, instead of trying to decipher if it was his own head or the spirit, he just did it. He talked about how even though everything he acts on is from the spirit, he feels like the Lord can trust him to follow promptings more, because he is trying to train himself to leap up and do it the first time he feels something.

I think we can learn a lot about obedience from these two things. Obedience to the Lord is not something to be questioned. He's not going to ask us to do something bad, or something that is not going to help us or the ones around us in the long run, and He's not going to tell you to do something impossible. I've made a goal to become more obedient about the things I feel to do, as well as the commandments and guidance I might have some more trouble following. Being obedient can bless us and those around us in more ways we know.