2.306 I Commanded My Servant...That He Should Testify

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's great to have you with me. Today let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. Was it not so?

What a great question from the Lord to his followers. Let's take a look at where it came from. We're reading this week Doctrine and Covenants Section 124, as well as 3 Nephi chapters 20 through 23.

As we wrap up our week of readings this week, we're going to be reading from the Book of Nephi chapter 20. We're going to finish up inside the Book of Mormon in 3 Nephi chapter 23. The Lord is reminding us that we should absolutely be spending time reading from the words of Isaiah.

So for those of you that are huge Isaiah fans, clap yourselves on the back there and say, good job for understanding one or two sentences in Isaiah. For the rest of us, he also says that we should be searching the prophets. And then he goes in and he gives them like a real-life example that really got me thinking.

I look back into last year, you know, last season's readings, and I have a very similar thought from last season. Although this comes from a different verse, so let's see what it looks like today. We have 3 Nephi 23:9 today for our verse.

It says, As verily I say unto you, I commanded my servant Samuel the Lamanite, that he should testify unto this people, that at the day that the Father should glorify his name in me, that there were many saints who should arise from the dead, and should appear unto many, and should minister unto them. And he said unto them, Was it not so? Now, first of all, when we're talking about miracles in the Book of Mormon, it's not exactly a primary answer to talk about saints being risen from the dead when Jesus Christ is resurrected, much less that they go around ministering to the people.

But then we find out here through Nephi responding to Jesus that he says, well, yeah, actually that did happen, but we hadn't written that down. So we have quite a miraculous event—I mean, people rising from the dead and ministering to others! That phenomenal!

What an amazing miracle! And we only have just a couple of verses right here in this chapter about that miraculous event because it wasn't recorded. My friends, I know that I had miracles in my life that I have not recorded.

Now, some of them I tried to share inside of Savory Salt a little bit here and there. Others I try to keep in kind of a family record. I certainly have like a journal for my mission and reflections like that.

But I think today for you and for me, it's worth sitting down and thinking about the miracles that we have witnessed in our lives and asking ourselves whether we have any sort of record there. Do we share it with others? Do we testify that we have experienced a miracle?

Now, when I say that, I don't mean we have to stand from the rooftops and testify. You can share it with your family. You could share it with just your spouse or just your children or maybe even just one of your children.

Maybe you just share it with a friend. Maybe you don't have a family member to share it with. So you find a neighbor that you trust and have good conversations with.

Whoever it is. 1. Have you recorded it? 2. Have you testified to others about it?

I think there's something important here that the Lord is trying to remind the Nephites. He sends miracles among the people. Those miracles are to, in effect, testify of the existence of Jesus Christ and his love for us.

So that question, was it not so, is something that you and I could spend some time thinking into today ourselves. What have we experienced in our lives that we have not recorded or shared with others that the Lord may call us forward on our Day of Judgment and have him say, 'You know what, Allen, on your mission, didn't this happen to you?' I testify today that miracles are real. My family has watched them, especially as my daughter's been on her mission in Argentina.

We've had family miracles here. She has had miracles there. And there is no explanation other than to testify of a loving Heavenly Father that brings miracles into our lives.

I know that they are real and I testify to you of them today. That's all for today, my friends. Lift up your hearts and rejoice.

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