2.130 To Keep Them in Remembrance of God

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, a bold reminder that our lives are meant to carry His flavor, His truth, and His love to the world. Join me each day to explore one verse of scripture and one thought, striving to stay full of savor and truly live as savory salt. Hello, my friends.

Great to have you with me. Today, let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. I hope you have been enjoying Doctrine and Covenants section 45.

And honestly, I hope that every one of you has taken an opportunity at least once, if not every day this week, to make a little Light of Christ list and look for Him in your life. I have loved this activity, and this week as we've gone through it, it's helped me even as I've shifted and gone over to the Book of Mosiah to read the experience of Abinadi. He certainly had an interesting lens to consider in terms of difficulties in life, right?

His struggles were in a different way. He was tied up and chained and brought before a council and faced his own life in front of him, right? So, you've been reading Doctrine and Covenants section 45.

We're going to shift gears into Mosiah. This week, you're reading chapters 12 through 16, and our verse for today comes in Mosiah chapter 13, verse 30. This one's an interesting one because Abinadi is talking about the difference in the Law of Moses and why these—the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

He talks about why these laws are in place. What are they? I think it's something that we can look at and apply in our lives as well.

It says this, verse 30: "Therefore there was a law given them, yea, a law of performances and of ordinances, A law which they were to observe strictly from day to day, to keep them in remembrance of God and their duty towards Him." Now, my friends, as you're facing the struggles of your day, what can your current covenants remind you of? See, that stood out to me inside of this. We see that the Lord gave these people laws, not because God wanted to be a strict God, not because God wanted to say, "Hey, don't follow these laws, and I can strike you away." The idea behind the law, the performance of the ordinances, right?

The strict observance was for the people to remind them, to bring them into remembrance of God and their duty towards Him. My friends, if you are struggling, if you're having a hard time right now, where can you go to be reminded? My suggestion?

To turn to the places you have made your covenants. And I'm not even talking about like going in and doing temple ordinances, although that would certainly be something that can help you recall and remember God and remember your duty towards Him. What I'm saying is, take some time to be in the places where you have made covenants with the Lord.

Go and do some of those ordinances for the dead and remember the days when you did the ordinances for yourself because that remembrance keeps you anchored in the Light of Jesus Christ. In your times of struggle, don't turn away from those activities. Instead, turn towards them.

When you're challenged, and I think that these laws and ordinances that we have today are similar in what Abinadi is teaching from the Law of Moses, they're an opportunity for us to recall. They're a chance for us to remember the Lord in our lives. So, if we are struggling in any certain area with covenants we have made with the Lord, lean into the covenants rather than turn away from the covenants, and see what happens as the Lord instills inside of you His Spirit to help you remember that He is there for us always.

You are a covenant child of your Heavenly Father. Turn and lean on those covenants and ordinances to strengthen you in your time of need, and He will answer. That's all for today, my friends.

Lift up your hearts and rejoice. Cleave unto the covenants you have made, and together we will be savory salt. For more information, visit us at www.savorysalt.org.