“Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield.”
Genesis 15:1
Jesus gives us protection, both physically and spiritually. He knows that we live in a world that can be scary and dangerous at times. He doesn’t expect us to face it on our own.
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Oftentimes, we use the word hope to mean wishful thinking. We “hope” it doesn’t rain tomorrow or “hope” that we win some prize. But ultimately, we have no promise that those things will happen. We just really, really want them to, so we cross our fingers and “hope” for the best.
The hope that is used in the scriptures, however, is different. Hope is an assurance in good things to come. It’s the kind of hope that you have in a sunrise, knowing that the very laws of nature dictate that the sun will be there in the morning. Period.
Where can we find that source of ultimate hope? In Jesus Christ.
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While pondering how I could better come to know Jesus Christ, I thought of how prophets have told us to read The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. At first, I shrugged off the thought. How was that supposed to work? Jesus doesn’t even show up until 3 Nephi, right?
Well, I listened to the prompting anyway. And I’m glad I did. I had opened up to 1 Nephi, hardly reading past “I, Nephi…”, when I had another thought—“Stop. Go back and replace the words the Lord with Jesus.”
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