2.135 Keep a Regular History

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 can't believe I missed it yesterday, but I did.

And so here we need to celebrate it today. My friends, yesterday was Savory Salt's 500th episode, which means today is 501. For some of you, you have been through all 500, which is awesome and amazing, but more than that, I hope what it's done for you is established a regular pace of diving into the scriptures, seeking the word of the Lord, learning from general conference talks, and I hope that you are finding your life a little more savory.

For me, it's been an exciting path and adventure. I gotta admit, I don't think I had in mind that I would start and get to 500 at all. And yet, here we are on the path of 501.

So big celebration for everybody. Congratulations, well done diving into that! If you only listened to one out of 500, boy, have you got some catch-up to do!

I'm kidding, I'm kidding! Join us for whatever works best for you. This week we're reading Doctrine and Covenants sections 46–48 as well as Mosiah chapters 17–20.

And I just want to add one inside of Doctrine and Covenants section 47 here. It's an interesting one as we get into it. It's an interesting one I want to be added in here because it's kind of just this little side note in history actually, and yet I wanted to pull a piece out of it.

Before we get to the verse, which is verse one, inside of kind of the historical context we get in the introduction here, it talks about John Whitmer's opinion of being asked to keep a history. And his opinion inside of this intro is, 'I would rather not.' I'd rather not do it. That's what he says.

And yet, interesting, the piece there is, 'I would rather not do it, but observed that the will of the Lord be done.' Now that's not our thought for today, but keep that in mind. There's a whole area we could do when it comes to church callings or assignments or things the Lord's asking you to do that you would rather not do. And yet, here what we have inside of verse 1, it says, 'All things which shall be given you until he has called to further duties.' What I like about this is we've had one or two of these in our 500 episodes, but this is a great reminder for what it means for us to keep a regular history.

As I look back at different things that I've got and done in my life that are history records of sorts, I have audio programs I've recorded. I have video courses that I've recorded. And one of the things I love about those, in fact, I remember my first video course I recorded, it was about family empowerment.

It was about keeping families together. So historical records are what create the stories that we all love. And this is an opportunity for us to realize that those stories came from the people like me and you.

What kind of regular history are you recording? Maybe that's a recording in a journal for you on a daily basis. Maybe it's not a daily basis thing.

Maybe it's audio capturing for you. Maybe you just talk to your phone in voice.