Day 100 Jarom: The Revealed Plan of Salvation

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. And, oh my goodness, before I go any further, we are on day 100. Congratulations.

Yes. Centurions of the world unite. Congratulations on being on 100 days of reading the Book of Mormon together.

Wherever you're listening from, thank you for joining me. And know that I'm cheering for your every success. One of those successes being getting through the Book of Mormon together through Savory Salt.

I have so enjoyed this and I would encourage you on this 100th day to look back over your journey through the Book of Mormon and decide what it's been for you. What do you understand better because you're spending time in the Book of Mormon? Where has the savor increased in your life?

Maybe that savor isn't necessarily something you notice from the inside out, but maybe that savor is just that you love to read more or you even could like to read the Book of Mormon. I hope you take some time to reflect and record the feelings you're having as you go through the Book of Mormon. And as we do so together on Savory Salt, I hope this is value added in your life, specifically through the lens of your relationship with Jesus Christ.

Today is Day 100. We are going to read. It's so cool.

Today we get to celebrate 100 days and we get to read an entire book today. So you get a feel like you've just done this massive accomplishment aside from the massive accomplishment that you just did. Today we're reading the Book of Jarom or Jarom chapter 1 and you're going to read all of it.

And our verse today is kind of a fun verse. We're going to read it. Let's talk about it.

Verse number 2. This is Jarom speaking. For I shall not write the things of my prophesying, nor of my revelations.

For what could I write more than my fathers have written? For have not they revealed the plan of salvation? I say unto you, Yea, and this sufficeth me.

Jarom is such an interesting book to me because he is telling us he is aware of what has been written before him. And what is that? Well, that's, we know, the Books of Nephi and Jacob as we see them today.

And it probably was the Book of Lehi before. And that's the lost 116 pages. We won't go into that right now.

Now, this is a recording of Jarom saying, I'm not going to write down further stuff that I have because I don't know what else to add. They already share with you the plan of salvation. Now, I don't think Jarom's saying, so from now on, nothing else matters as we keep records.

I think what he's saying is when it comes to the revelations I'm having and when it comes to my testimony, I look back at what Nephi and Jacob and others have taught and I say, wow, that's a lot of information. That's a pretty good explanation of the plan of salvation. And so today, in this context of Jarom saying this, now we're going to go through this hyperspeed when we get through Jarom and Omni here in terms of timeline.

We're going to go from like Nephi's time of 600ish B.C. and 500 B.C. and then we're just going to laser up to the Book of Mosiah where all of a sudden we're going to be about a hundred years before Christ. The Bible is now a couple hundred years away from Nephi. He's carried these small plates around and yet he is saying, I don't know what else to write because they've revealed the plan of salvation.

I love what they've written. So for you, go back over this last hundred days, go back and remember some of those favorite points for you. What are some of the chapters that have taught you more about the plan of salvation?

I love for you to dig in and find the places that have stuck out to you that have helped you better understand this plan of happiness that the Lord has given for us, has designed for us, for our happiness, for our betterment. I love this insight that Jarom provides. It's a chance for me to say, wow, the stuff that I've read so far is life-changing information, and I'm only in the first hundred days.

I've got more coming ahead of me, and I'm going to be able to dive in deeper and better understand it. But according to Jarom here, wow, the entire plan of salvation has been pretty clearly sketched out through the Books of Nephi and Jacob and Enos. And 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.