Day 212 The Easy Way: Don't Be Slothful, Look and Live

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. Today, counsel from a loving father recorded for us through the power of a loving Heavenly Father.

Welcome to Day 212 on our 365-day journey through the Book of Mormon together. Today, you're going to be reading some of the greatest counsel a father could give a son. In Alma chapter 37, verses 28 to 47.

You're going to finish that chapter, and you have more counsel from Alma to a couple of his other sons. But this one seems to just hit home a little bit. As you get a clear warning about wickedness, very specific warnings about what wickedness may look like in our day, and then you get counsel on how to live and how to teach others to live the gospel.

And then, on the tail end of this chapter, you get what seems to be almost a recollection from Alma to teach Helaman about the Liahona and really what the Liahona is representing. And that's what takes us to our verse for today inside of Alma chapter 37, verse 46. While talking about the Liahona, he says this: "O my son, do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way.

For so was it with our fathers; for so was it prepared for them, that if they would look they might live. Even so it is with us. The way is prepared, and if we will look, we may live forever." You know, it's interesting because the connections that we see here.

He's given the example of the Liahona, and how clearly, when they followed its directions, it took them precisely where they needed to go. And he's spoken before about the example from the Old Testament where the people simply needed to look at the brass serpent and live. And he talks about how easy it is.

And I think it interesting because our day is perhaps the most leisurely age in history. I absolutely know that there are different degrees of abundance around the globe today, so I don't mean to speak across the board. But the abundance that is on the earth today—the technologies, the ways life is better, the hospitalization—The Bible says that the gospel of Jesus Christ is easy to walk, but don't forget that it's not easy to walk.

We sit in an age that pharaohs and kings of the past had nothing on us compared to what we live in today. Don't let our leisurely age lull you into security. Stay fast in your testimony of Jesus Christ.

Stay close, and I think you do that, you'll get the counsel that Alma's providing to his son Helaman here. 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.