Day 183 Our Different Paths Are Okay
Show Notes
In this episode, Allen Roberds explores Alma 20:30 from the Book of Mormon, reflecting on the vastly different spiritual paths and challenges faced by individuals, particularly missionaries like the sons of Mosiah compared to Ammon. He emphasizes that our unique journeys and sufferings are acceptable to the Lord, encouraging listeners to avoid comparison and judgment, embracing the divine acceptance of our varied experiences.
Key Points
- The episode contrasts the difficult missionary experiences of the sons of Mosiah, who suffered severe hardship and imprisonment, with the comparatively smoother path of Ammon.
- Allen Roberds advises against comparing personal spiritual journeys or judging others based on the perceived ease or difficulty of their experiences.
- Alma 20:30 describes the harsh reality that some individuals are allotted a more challenging path, facing a "more hardened and a more stiff-necked people."
- Despite different levels of difficulty, the ultimate opportunity for everyone is to choose the Lord, regardless of whether their path is rocky or smooth.
- The overarching message is that everyone's unique journey and struggles are okay and divinely accepted.
Our paths are different and that's okay. Because the opportunity that all of us have is an opportunity to choose the Lord.
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 you know something we all have different paths and I'm pretty sure that the Lord's okay with that let's take a look at what I mean today welcome to day 183 on our 365 day journey through the Book of Mormon together thank you for joining me I'm excited today you're going to read Alma chapter 20 verses 23 We be right back Ammon and Lamoni go into Madoni and they going to be able to take these sons of Mosiah these brothers out of prison And they in pretty rough shape When Ammon sees them he feels pretty bad about the situation They're in rough shape. They were definitely treated differently than he was. And that's where it takes us into our verse for today.
Let's take a look at Alma 20.30 and see what we can draw from it. It says, And as it happened, it was their lot to have fallen into the hands of a more hardened and a more stiff-necked people. Therefore they would not hearken unto their words, and they had cast them out, and had smitten them, and had driven them from house to house, and from place to place, even until they had arrived in the land of Madoni.
And there they were taken and cast into prison and bound with strong cords and kept in prison for many days and were delivered by Lamoni and Ammon. This is a pretty rough go for this group of missionaries here. I'm sure there are many missionaries in the world that can talk about their challenging circumstances in the missions they served.
And you know what There such a variety of them I don see here and maybe it just not recorded but I don see here that any of the sons of Mosiah came to Ammon and said oh well Ammon just had an easier mission I mean he just Ammon just got to go meet Lamoni and everything was gold and everything was wonderful for him I don see any of that type of discussion And as weird as that sounds I do hear that today a lot of times inside of church discussions I hear people say oh well if you had it as hard as I did then da da da da da Or, oh, you just wait until that happens to you and then we'll see how you're able to handle that situation. And you know what, my friends? Our paths are different and that's okay.
Because the opportunity that all of us have is an opportunity to choose the Lord. And even in our choosing the Lord, our paths may have rockier areas and smoother areas. Look, Ammon's was no cup of tea, right?
Ammon struggled. He had to fight an entire group of guys that were trying to disrupt the flocks and had to pull out his sword and defend himself, right? Everyone's journey is different and that's okay.
And I love, even in the verse before it, it talks about how these sons of Mosiah were patient in their sufferings. And the phrase that I love inside of verse 30 is look it was their lot to have fallen into the hands of one of those difficult paths don look at others I hope you are too.
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