Day 138 Of Course It Did: Unity and Limhi's Baptism

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. Of course it did! This is one of my favorite phrases, and today you're gonna understand why.

Of course it did! Welcome to Day 138 on our 365-day journey through the Book of Mormon. On today's journey, you're going to be reading Mosiah chapter 25, verses 1 through.

And this is a pretty cool chapter because you're going to have all of these groups of people we've been talking about for the last couple of days, maybe a couple of weeks here. They're all going to come together. Alma's going to join back together with Zeniff, or Limhi, really, the people of Zeniff originally.

And then they're going to join with King Mosiah, and we're going to have this, you know, kind of gathering, and we're all going to become one. Of course it did! Let's talk about that for just a second.

Our verse for today comes from Mosiah 25, verse 17. This is what it says. It's kind of in the middle of all these uniting things happening.

Alma gets an opportunity to speak. And this is what verse 17 says: And it came to pass that after Alma had taught the people many things and had made an end of speaking to them, that King Limhi was desirous that he might be baptized and all his people were desirous that they might be baptized also. Now, first of all, the concept of this is really, really cool because if we back up just a little bit to the story, Alma used to be in the bad advisor priest group of King Noah, who was preached to by Abinadi.

King Noah was Limhi's father, right? And so we have this connection here. Then we go full circle around here.

By the way, the people would have been the same people that didn't want to listen to Abinadi, right? Or at least many of them as they're escaping and doing those things from the Lamanites. And here we have a full circle experience where Limhi is desirous to repent and be baptized.

He's preached to by Alma, who used to be this priest of Noah and then repented and found his ways. They went down different roads, and yet the Lord made sure that this tapestry came all together. And the phrase that I have here is, 'Well, of course it did!

Of course it worked out!' Worked out like that because the Lord's hand was in it the whole time. It makes me think of Joseph Smith's promise in Doctrine and Covenants 122, where he told, 'Look, all these, all these things, all these challenges, all these struggles, all these burdens that you're going to face, they're going to give you experience, and they're going to be for your good.' Of course they are! This phrase is a phrase that we use often on our adventures when we go over and do humanitarian work with 100 Humanitarians in Kenya.

We go over there and when we watch things happen, and look, this happens for good and for bad, we use the phrase, 'Yeah, of course it did.' Hey, this and this happened. Of course it did. But what we mean when we say that is, look, we know the Lord's hand is in this.

And when something miraculous happens, we just say, 'Yeah, of course it happened.' Because we're looking and seeing miracles along the way. I mean, look at what a miracle this is. Alma, past bad priest of Noah, has repented.

He went his own ways. Limhi, son of Noah, trying to figure out life post, you know, bad dad syndrome that he's experiencing. He goes his way in life.

And then here, under the united banner of King Mosiah, a completely different group of people, the two of them come together. Alma preaches. Limhi accepts and ends up getting baptized by the very person who, just, you know, a half a generation ago, was experiencing challenges in his own life, and testimony challenges at a level that, you know, maybe some of us have gone through in our own experiences.

So I want you to hold this perspective. I'm your host, Allen Roberds, and I'll see you next time. Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow, and I hope you are too.