2.318 That Ye May Be Numbered with My People

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. Prophets should be like great friends for us.

Let me explain. We're reading this week Doctrine and Covenants sections 129 through 132. We've finished up there.

We're going to shift gears and go into our Book of Mormon reading for the rest of the week. And then Mormon kind of lets us know he's writing at the end of 29. And then we have this interesting verse inside of Third Nephi chapter 30, where Mormon just kind of out of nowhere to wrap up the book.

We don't have kind of a traditional way with Third Nephi wrapping up like other books in the Book of Mormon where it's like, "And now I finish my record and I hand the plates over to my son or my grandson or my son's best friend," right? Whatever. Instead, we have this moment here.

The end of Third Nephi is actually Mormon saying, you know what? I've been commanded to say this, to give this invitation. I need to write this down inside of here.

So kind of an interesting way to wrap up the Book of Third Nephi. So our verse for today is Third Nephi chapter 30, verse 2. This is Mormon's invitation to us, okay?

As commanded by Jesus Christ, right? It says, "Now, what does this have to do with prophets being like good friends to us?" Well, good friends to me don't accept me for who I am. Now let me explain when I say that because a lot of people are like, "Can you just accept me for who I am?" That's kind of our world today.

So let me explain. Good friends to me encourage me, invite me to be better. Good friends, when they see me, they don't respond that everything's just same old, same old.

Instead, they want to know what's new in my life. They want to see me growing and developing. And I think prophets, especially those speaking through the authority and power of Jesus Christ, are going to constantly invite us to repent, to turn away from our wickedness.

And that could be spectrums for all of us, right? We're not, maybe we're not, you know, on the realm of murderers, but do we have some envyings and strifes? I mean, that list that he had is pretty good, pretty all inclusive inside of there.

Our lyings and deceivings, right? So maybe we're not on the murderer end of things, but could we all handle a little bit more of repentance in our lives? Yes.

And I'm grateful that prophets living and prophets of old like Mormon here invite me to be better because it puts them in a position where I can see them as good friends. Friends for me, good friends for me, want to know what I'm doing to better myself and they encourage and cheer me on. My wife is one of my best friends and she encourages that prophets can sit in that seat for me and call me to repentance and encourage me to receive a remission of my sins to be filled with the Holy Ghost so that I too can be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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.