Day 59 Drawing Closer to the Light of the Lord

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life and ultimately you and I can be savory salt.

Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from. Thank you for joining me. And know that I am cheering for your every success.

I got a smile on my face because here we are into some more Isaiah chapters. Today on our 365-day journey, I guess I should say welcome to Day 59, the last of the 50s. We're almost into two solid months of studying the Book of Mormon together.

Well done. Congratulations. I hope you're enjoying as much as I am.

I'm having a good time inside of Savory Salt. Today, read 2 Nephi chapter 12. That's it.

That's all the reading. We just spent like an entire week inside of 2 Nephi chapter 9. That's alright.

Today, 2 Nephi 12 is all yours for the taking. No problem. It's not bad.

It's an Isaiah chapter, though, and that might get you shying away a little bit. But again, we're just going to look for these things that show us the love of Jesus Christ. There are a couple of verses in here that are awesome.

They're beautiful verses. It's almost poetry. Maybe it is poetry in Isaiah.

But I wanted to dive into our verse today, verse five. Verse five says this: "O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord. Yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every one to his wicked ways." Now, that seems like a double-sided coin there really quick.

It's like, "Yea, come to the light of the Lord." Oh, you've all gone astray. And I don't read this in a way that's like, oh shucks, you all made bad choices, therefore you're lost forever. Instead, I read this as, "Hey, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord." It got me thinking, what would happen in my own life?

So I'll think hypothetically here for me, but I'm going to phrase it for all of us. But what if all of our decisions, just our day-to-day decisions, what if they were based on whether it drew us closer to the light of the Lord? What would our day-to-day decision-making look like?

Where would our priorities be if they were based on living and walking in the light of the Lord? Now, maybe you're sitting there saying, "Whoa, hey Allen, calm down a little bit." I do. I walk in the light of the Lord, and that's okay.

Congratulations for doing that. I know that I'm trying to do my best. I'm advancing as best as I can.

And I also understand that sometimes I've gone astray, as the second half of this verse says. But I love the idea of keeping the lens in front of me. Does this draw me closer to the light of the Lord Jesus Christ?

His light shines bright for all of us. What would it be like if I thought through the lens of drawing closer to the light of the Lord? It's got me really excited because I think about times in my life where I guess subconsciously I've made that decision.

But this just helps me become more intentional and more conscious about it. When I made some career changes a while back, it's been several years now, but I got to a point where I wasn't really sure what I was doing. I was just helping people in a lot of different ways.

Helping some businesses grow, helping some families grow together, closer together, and I was just kind of doing a random variety of things, and whenever people would ask my wife what Allen did for a living, she didn't really know how to tell him. And so she would just say, "I think he pretty much just teaching gospel principles to people that aren't in the gospel." I wasn't out proselyting and I wasn't out teaching specifically the gospel of Jesus Christ, but I kind of see where she was going there, where I was trying to teach sound and true principles from the gospel of Jesus Christ in settings that were more secular settings. In those contexts, I got a lot of energy from it because I still felt like what I was trying to do was live inside the light of the Lord.

So today, just give it a shot for one day. Today, make your decisions based on whether it helps you walk in the light of the Lord and just see what happens. That's all for today, my friends.

Remember that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass. Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow.

I hope you are too. We'll see you next time.