Day 188 Repentance: Keeping Our Swords Bright

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 I'm cheering for your every success.

I got a smile on my face today. A little bit of a mirror activity coming at you. Welcome to day 188.

And welcome to Alma chapter 24. You're going to be reading verses 1 through 17 today. This is a part of the Book of Mormon that has a story that's been A lot.

So you may be familiar with it. If not, you're going to see it for the first time as the converted Lamanites, now known as the anti-Nephi-Lehies, are starting to break away from the non-converted Lamanites of various different groups. They're going to make a covenant here on the front end of this chapter to bury their weapons of war.

The king has an interesting perspective on that that I think it worth looking into our own lives and seeing what it means for us Let take a look at the verse and see what it says Alma 24 verse 15 This is the king talking and he says This one's a really cool perspective in my opinion because the king is saying We have got the gospel light in our lives. We have repented. We have changed our ways.

We have changed our hearts and we don't want to go back to who we were. So let's have our weapons be a testimony of that in our lives. It makes me think of me and my own repentance process Here comes the mirror in my life I hold it in front of me and I look and say Allen when you repent of your shortcomings are you changing in a way that shows that your swords are bright and stay bright As you make tweaks in your life and as you repent of your shortcomings are you ensuring that the actions and behaviors you take going forward are ones that are different from your sins of the past This is a mirror activity for you to look and make sure.

Yes, the Lord's going to understand that we may make mistakes repeatedly or that we may do things time and time again and continue to try and get those habits changed and repent of them. This is like a new level for me. As the King of the Lamanites says, our swords became bright and we want to keep them bright all the way until the last day.

Is the repentance process changing? This is a great opportunity for us to ask ourselves, what has changed in your life? What things have you made sure are behind you?

How have you cleaned your sword so that it is bright in the last day as you prepare to meet the Lord? These are great introspective questions that when I say you, I mean me, I'm asking me these I'm so grateful to be here today to share with you this wonderful message that I've been hearing from you all these years. I so grateful to be here today to share with you this wonderful message that I been hearing from you all these years That I am a brighter sword than I was when I started the beginning of Savory Salt I hope that this process of diving into the Book of Mormon of seeking to repent and become a little bit better every day is changing me in a way that the Lord can say Hey Allen you brighter than you were That's the idea behind savory salt and I love that the King of the Lamanites here embraces this as these people say, you know what?

Our swords are bright and we're going to make sure so much so we're going to make sure that we're going to throw these in a pit and bury them in the earth so that there's no possible way that our old sins come back to haunt us and we start doing them again in our lives. That's a new level of faith and a new understanding of repentance and it's something worth holding that mirror up in your life as well. 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.