Day 105 Pitch Your Tent Towards Prophets and Temple
Show Notes
Join Allen Roberds for a reflection on Mosiah 2:6, where King Benjamin's people pitched their tents around the temple. This episode explores the vital question: what direction is your spiritual tent facing today? Discover the importance of aligning your life towards prophetic counsel and sacred temple covenants as a guide for daily living.
Key Points
- King Benjamin's people pitched their tents around the temple, symbolizing their readiness to hear his words and focus on sacred things (Mosiah 2:6).
- The episode encourages listeners to consider if their 'tent' in life is facing towards Prophets, Apostles, and the Temple.
- Aligning one's life with prophetic counsel provides essential guidance and spiritual direction.
- Embracing temple covenants and the Lord's commandments serves as a foundational element for a savory and purposeful life.
- Daily scripture reflection, like this one from the Book of Mormon, helps cultivate a consistent focus on divine teachings.
My friends, I ask you: what direction is your tent facing in life today? Do you face your tent towards the direction of the Prophets and Apostles to seek their counsel and to hear what they have to say? Is your tent facing in the direction of the temple with the covenants that you made and the commandments of the Lord in front of you?
Full Transcript
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'm cheering for your every success. Welcome to day 105 on our 365 day journey through the Book of Mormon together. Today, we're going to be reading Mosiah chapter 1, verses 11 through 18.
You're going to dive in and finish chapter 1 there. And you're going to start Mosiah chapter 2, verses 1 through 18. Let's get started.
We did not have a Book of Mormon translated at that time but Mosiah chapters two through five were one of the small and few sections that we did have translated. And so I had an opportunity throughout my mission to share from these verses. I grew to love the message from King Benjamin here to his people as he passed on his title to his son Mosiah.
And so I hope you get excited over the next several days as we dive into chapters two through five. Today, our verse does come from chapter two. We're going to be in Mosiah as King Benjamin begins his address.
And yet the verse that I chose today is right before he actually formally begins his address. It's verse six. Let's take a look at it.
It says, and they pitched their tents round about the temple, every man having his tent with the door thereof. King Benjamin. Face the Prophets.
It's such a great reminder for me. I've loved it. We've actually still got tents in our house during General Conference as my two younger daughters still enjoy pitching their tents and facing to hear the words of the Prophet.
My friends, I ask you: what direction is your tent facing in life today? Do you face your tent towards the direction of the Prophets and Apostles to seek their counsel and to hear what they have to say? Is your tent facing in the direction of the temple with the covenants that you made and the commandments of the Lord in front of you?
That's something that I've tried to do with my family. I hope I am doing it in a meaningful way for them. And I hope that they enjoy hearing and hearkening to the words of the Prophets as much as I do.
I hope you can too. 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.
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