Day 155 Can Ye Feel So Now? Daily Progression

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.

My friends, how is your conversation with Alma going? How was answering his questions yesterday as you were reading in Alma chapter 5? I know I left you hanging a little bit.

Welcome to day 155 on our 365-day journey. Let's just finish that second half of the thought right up the beginning of this episode. My friends, can you feel so now?

Our reading today comes from Alma 5:23–39. We're going to be in the middle of more questions, and I really do hope you're taking the time to dig into those. Our verse for today comes off the beginning of our reading.

There were several in here I wanted to choose, but this one just continued the thought from yesterday. Let's wrap it up together. Verse 26: Now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?

I love this. This is the epitome of savory salt right here. Alma is helping us remember that the gospel and conversion to Jesus Christ is not a single event.

It is ongoing. It's a progression. It's constant.

It's a process. He's asking, if you have felt those feelings in the past, do you continue to feel them now? It got me reflecting on the concept of eternal progression, and I wanted to just read some things that had been talked about there.

And I landed on just a little footnote of one of the conference talks by President Russell M. Nelson back when he was Elder Nelson in 2013. I'll put a link into it.

Inside of this talk, he starts it off really interesting. He says, My dear brothers and sisters, this is called "Decisions for Eternity," by the way, October of 2013. My dear brothers and sisters, each day is a day of decision.

President Thomas S. Monson has taught us that decisions determine destiny. The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. And then in that footnote right there—well, let me finish the paragraph—he says, Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

I love this. It's a great talk, by the way. It takes some time to dive into it.

But in the footnote, he references a hymn that isn't sung very often. It's called, "If You Could Hie to Kolob." And in verse 4, it says this about eternal progression. There is no end to virtue.

There's no end to might. There's no end to wisdom. There is no end to light.

There is no end to union. There is no end to youth. There is no end to priesthood.

There is no end to truth. And verse 5 finishes up with: There is no end to glory. There is no end to love.

There is no end to being. There is no death above. My friends, as Alma's asking these questions, he's asking them about how you feel right now.

And if you don't feel that change of heart right now, if you don't feel like singing the song of redeeming love right now, then what can you do to bring that back into your life? The reading today will continue asking questions for you to dive in and self. Take some time to do that.

Take some time to grow and to find that desire to sing the song of redeeming love. Becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ is not about running through a finish line, getting baptized, going through the temple for the first time. These are events in our lives, but they're not finish-line events.

They're just starting points for us. Living the gospel of Jesus Christ is getting up daily and becoming a disciple of Christ over and over again. I love Alma's teaching in chapter 5, and he's only getting started because chapters 6 and 7 are coming.

Alma helps me fire up the spark of the gospel in my life again. He gets me excited to choose the right, and I hope he does the same for you. 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, and I hope you are too.