Day 160 You Don't Have to Do This Work Alone
Show Notes
This episode of Savory Salt explores Alma 8:8-32, focusing on Alma's challenging journey and the Lord's divine provision of a companion, Amulek. Discover how you don't have to face life's spiritual journey or difficult times alone, as the Lord places friends and companions in your path to uplift and strengthen you. Allen Roberds encourages listeners to both seek and be such supportive friends in their own lives.
Key Points
- Alma faces trials and rejection in Ammonihah, receives angelic guidance, and finds a divinely prepared companion in Amulek as detailed in Alma chapter 8.
- The Lord actively places people in our lives to serve as companions, friends, and sources of upliftment during lonely or challenging periods on our spiritual journey.
- Alma 8:20 recounts Amulek's immediate recognition of Alma as a holy prophet and his invitation to shelter, acknowledging Alma would be a blessing to his house.
- Listeners are encouraged to not only look for these divinely appointed companions but also to actively strive to be such a supportive presence for others.
- The powerful missionary companionship of Alma and Amulek exemplifies how the Lord connects individuals for greater spiritual work and mutual strength in living the gospel.
The Lord will place people in our paths that can become companions, friends, and can uplift us and strengthen us.
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.
My friends, my family, you don't have to do this work alone. That's what we're going to see inside of our message today. Welcome to Day 160 on our 365-day journey through the Book of Mormon together.
Today, you're going to read Alma chapter 8, verses 8 through 32. Basically, the rest of that chapter is going to be about the Book of Mormon. And inside of this, Alma is going to experience some pretty difficult times as he gets asked to leave in not-nice ways the city of Ammonihah, and then receives a visitation from an angel, and he heads back to Ammonihah.
I hope you enjoy these verses because this is the culmination of the Lord saying, Hey, I got you, I here for you, and I know that I can connect you with the people that can help you out. Let's look at Alma 8:20 today. Alma has headed back into Ammonihah.
And this is what happens when he meets someone along the way. Verse 20: "And the man said unto him, I am a Nephite, and I know that thou art a holy prophet of God. For thou art the man whom an angel said in a vision, Thou shalt receive.
Therefore go with me into my house, and I will impart unto thee of my food. And I know that thou wilt be a blessing unto me and my house." There's so many times in my life where I've been feeling lonely, and the Lord has placed people in my life for times and for seasons, sometimes, that uplift me, strengthen me, and become a companion of sorts, or just solid friends or good friends. I can think of a time between my junior and senior year in high school when this weird, eclectic group of guys got together—me included—with my buddies, Anthony.
We were this group of guys that ended up together our senior year, and we were friends for times and seasons together, and I know that the Lord just got us together to figure out what senior year was going to look like. Other times in my life, I can think of times on my mission. A specific one where I was having a particularly hard time on my mission and really down, and was assigned to be companions with Elder Neal; Trevor Neal was his name.
And I know that he came into my life at a specific time. We find out here that this man's name is Amulek. And the next several chapters, Alma chapter 9 through 14, are going to be Alma and Amulek preaching together.
And something I love about this verse is at the end of it, Amulek says, "I know that thou wilt be a blessing unto me and my house." My friends, you don't have to live this commandment living life alone. The life of following the commandments can be lonely sometimes, but it doesn't have to be lived alone. The Lord will place people in our paths that can become companions, friends, and can uplift us and strengthen us.
I would encourage you to not just look for those people, but to be one of those people yourself. When you seek to be one of those people, you will in turn attract those people into your life. Alma and Amulek came together at a perfect time and became a very powerful missionary companionship.
Makes you wonder who could be right around the corner in your life to become a strong companion, a strong friend, or somebody who will just be there through the hard times with you in your life going forward. Whether you're a teenager now or whether you're in your decades later in life, those friends will come as the Lord places them in your path in life. 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.
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