2.201 It Beginneth To Be Delicious To Me

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, it is great to have you with me.

Today let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. I failed to note yesterday a huge congratulations is in place for you and I. We are 201 days into our daily Savory Salt study for this season or this year, however you want to look at it.

Congratulations on the daily growth. I tend to function in hundred-day chunks, and so to get to a second hundred-day chunk for me is awesome and exciting. And I'm grateful to do it inside of our readings here as we've been in Doctrine and Covenants 77-80 this week, as well as Alma chapters 29-33.

And those are power chapters; I've been saying it all week, and it's true. And I have wrestled and wrestled to try and pick the verses that I can share here. I hope I'm picking verses that matter to you.

I'm picking verses that matter to me, and I'm trying to reflect deeply on who you are. Some of you I know, some of you I've never met, some of you have no context of who you are as you listen to this, but I try to picture who I'm talking to as I give these messages. And so, I'm grateful to you for sticking to the process.

Well done, 201 days through this reading. Our verse for today is in Alma chapter 32. We have to pull one from Alma 32, don't we?

Right? All my daughters right now would be singing, faith is like a little seed. And yet that's exactly what we're going to look at as a continuation of our thoughts yesterday.

If you did not listen to yesterday's episode, it's probably the longest one we've ever done with Savory Salt. Although when I say that it's still, you know, seven-ish minutes or something like that. But it's so important to feed onto and into today as we talk about these little things.

Let's look at our verse and see what we can take from it. It's Alma chapter 32, verse 28 as Alma's teaching these Zoramites and reminding them of the importance of these little things. He says, "Now we will compare the word unto a seed.

Now if ye give place that a seed may be planted in your heart, you begin to say within yourselves, it must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul. Yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding. Yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me." My friends, if there's a verse of scripture that could describe the process of conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ, this is it for me.

Because it starts so small. I think it's so interesting to look at our Heavenly Father's creations throughout the world. All of them start small.

Whether it's embryos, eggs, seeds, whatever it is, everything the Lord creates starts small. And then the key to making it enlarge your soul, enlighten your understanding, and ultimately become delicious: the key to that is inside of verse 28. That we plant it; that we don't cast it aside; that we don't resist the Spirit of the Lord.

My friends, I have outside my window of my office, I have a tree that's been dead for quite some time. And recently they came and cut the tree down. And I got thinking about that versus the seed here.

And the Zoramites may be a little bit like that tree, that dead tree. They had within them at some point the gospel and the light and the faith, and then the tree died. And it's interesting, as they came in and took the tree down, I kind of watched the crew a little bit while I was working and just kind of watching them out my window.

And it occurred to me here, Alma's trying to say to them—these people that have had the Gospel—"Hey, let's take out that dead tree and let's go again. Let's plant the seed. Let's start.

Don't cast it out. Don't cast your unbelief. Don't resist the Spirit." And it will begin to swell.

And it'll grow again, and it'll become beautiful again in your life. My friends, no matter where we are in our testimonies, we have an opportunity to continue to plant the seeds of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. The Atonement allows for us to plant and harvest, and plant and harvest.

And I love the reminder through nature that the Lord is giving to us to say, "Hey, I'm here." And it starts small. You can do this. I can do this.

The Lord is there to help us, and may it ultimately begin to be delicious to every one of us. That's all for today, my friends. Lift up your hearts and rejoice.

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