3.147 Remember, Repent, Reach Out

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.

Hello my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom you will serve.

We've been talking about deliverers, rescuers, heroes, helpers. I've got a question for you to start today. That question is, have you ever been saved?

And if so, what did it feel like after? We are reading this week from the book of Judges and specifically in Come Follow Me, I guess I haven't addressed that. We are reading Judges chapters 2 through 4, 6 through 8, and 13 through 16.

And actually inside of these readings, I kept thinking about different Book of Mormon scriptures and I thought, you know, it's been a while since we went over to the Book of Mormon to connect a few of the thoughts here. I thought this is just such a great time to choose that at least in my own lens. And so today, we're actually going to shift gears over to the Book of Mormon and read from one of my favorite chapters.

I have quoted it often inside of Savory Salt, but we're going to look at it a little bit differently today. Let's look at Alma chapter 36. This is where Alma shares his own repentance story, very much following the pattern that we see in the Book of Judges.

Alma the Younger had certainly fallen away from his beliefs. He didn't listen to his dad and didn't believe in the testimonies. He sought to have others not believe in their testimonies as well.

Sought to take people out of the church and destroy the church in general. And then he has this experience meeting the angel. He passes out.

He's out for three days. Names of his testimony of the gospel and specifically of our Savior Jesus Christ. And he latches on to that idea.

And then he feels incredible joy as he's forgiven. He is in effect delivered from his sins and his sorrow and his pains. And at this stage he wakes up everybody's happy for what happened.

And then we get the backside of this. And I think this is where I kind of connected to Judges. I feel like part of this story in Alma is what's missing from some of the judges' stories.

It's this verse here in Alma 36, verse 24. It says the pattern that Alma used here, the pattern that we see in general in Judges as a big group, but it seems like we miss this little piece here, this personal piece. Alma went through the experience of remembering.

He remembered the testimonies born to him. Then he repented. He repented of his own sins.

And after receiving forgiveness, he then reached out to others. And I think that the piece that's missing at least as I read through the book of Judges. So my friends, perhaps we could take a page out of Alma's story.

Remember the testimonies we've. Thank you for watching. Thanks for watching!