Day 111 Believe in God, Though We Don't Comprehend All
Show Notes
Allen Roberds reflects on Mosiah 4:9, emphasizing the importance of believing in God's infinite wisdom and power, even when human comprehension falls short. This episode encourages listeners to maintain their faith and commitment to God's commandments despite unanswered spiritual questions, finding strength in King Benjamin's teachings from the Book of Mormon.
Key Points
- Explore Mosiah 4:9, learning to believe in God as the all-wise and all-powerful Creator, even when we don't comprehend all His ways.
- Understand that the inability to answer every spiritual or religious question is not a reason to withhold belief in God.
- Connect belief with action, as King Benjamin teaches, striving to live righteously even without complete understanding.
- Reflect on how lack of full comprehension in fields like physics or nanotechnology doesn't negate their existence, paralleling our faith in God.
- Discover how unwavering faith can thrive regardless of the things we understand and don't understand about God and His plan.
not having the answers for me personally is not a challenge to my testimony because I hold the space that God exists regardless of the things that I understand and don't understand.
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. Today, for those of you that like the ones, welcome to day 111.
We are in day 111 on our 365-day journey through the Book of Mormon. And today you're going to be reading in Mosiah chapter 4, verses 7 through 20. And these verses are a bit of a domino, building on domino, knocking over domino type verses.
So although we have one verse to share here in Savory Salt, you're absolutely going to want to continue knocking over the dominoes as you do the reading today. We're going to be sharing a verse today from Mosiah chapter 4, verse 9. It is straightforward, and I'm going to let King Benjamin do the talking here for just a second.
Verse 9 says: Believe in God. Believe that he is and that he created all things both in heaven and in earth. Believe that he has all wisdom and all power both in heaven and in earth.
Believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. I love this verse. This is as straightforward as it gets for me.
I believe in God. I believe that he is the creator of heaven and earth. And I believe that he understands it all, and he has the plan.
And I love that because this tail end of this verse is so fascinating to see when it comes to the modern-day challenges we face in terms of questions we don't have clear answers to. There's a lot of, "What about this?" And "Why don't we do this?" And "Why did this come before that?" And "How come I have to do this today?" And look, I'm going to hold the space that King Benjamin holds here, and I'm going to believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. And yet, I'm going to hold to the front end of that verse, and I'm going to continue to believe in God either way.
Just because I can't answer a question, whether it be a spiritual-based question, or a religious (just the flow of how religion is), or "Why does my church do these things?" I don't always have those answers, but not having those answers is not a reason for me to withhold my belief in God. Now, the fascinating thing with this — and we're only going to share one verse — but if you continue knocking over the dominoes here, King Benjamin says, "Look, and if you believe these things, go do these things." Believe and do. And I believe that I can become a better person, and I can do the things that the Lord has commanded me to do.
That leads to a better version of me. That the space that I hold, I don't need to have all of the answers. And not having the answers for me personally is not a challenge to my testimony because I hold the space that God exists regardless of the things that I understand and don't understand.
My goodness, if I went around that aspect, for me personally, I'd have to stop believing in, I don't know, physics because I don't understand all of physics. So, I guess physics isn't real, or nanotechnology. I don't understand it all, and I don't have all the answers.
Therefore, nanotechnology doesn't exist. I don't understand rocket science, and I don't have all the answers. Therefore, they don't exist.
It just doesn't work for me in the way that I see the world. And look, I know people would argue back and say, "Well, yeah, but you can find somebody that has the answers." I don't know. Quantum physics has all sorts of things we don't have.
I love King Benjamin's directness, and I'm going to believe and do. What things am I going to do? That's for you to dig into as you read Mosiah 4:7-20 today.
I hope you enjoy these verses, and I hope you find inside of yourself a belief in God that. 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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