each week, I would like to share one little nugget from the come follow me reading.
This past week I had two verses that really stood out to me. I found myself coming back to them again and again. I talked about them with my husband and in prayer with my Heavenly Father. I spent some time pondering the message they were trying to share and what I could personally learn from them.
The verses are 15-16
My Book of Mormon study heavily focused on the covenant path and how I can remain firmly on it. Here in verse fifteen it talks about people straying from the Lord's ordinances and covenants. When I looked up the definition for the word strayed it said, "move away aimlessly from a group or from the right course or place." To me, that doesn't sound like something that was done intentionally (or at least not at first.) And the word aimlessly would imply that we stray without a having a defining "purpose or direction." One day, while I was thinking about this verse, I envisioned myself walking on a path. This path wasn't straight but it was well marked. Then I pulled out my phone. Looking down at my phone, I didn't realize that I was straying from the path. When I finally did look up, I realized that I couldn't see the path anymore. What went wrong? How could I have so quickly and easily moved away from the path without even realizing?
I think verse sixteen has an interesting insight and warning it says, "They seek NOT the Lord." One reason we stray from the covenant path is because we stop seeking God. If we aren't seeking God then what are we seeking instead? It could be money, popularity, the next level on a video game, binge watching tv shows, or anything else that causes us to stray from our covenants. Now, I am not saying that you can't seek for these things, but like the verse in Jacob tells us, "Before ye seek for riches, seek ye first the kingdom of God."
I recently read a book called 24/6 by Tiffany Shlain. In this book, Tiffany explains that once a week her family does a 24 hour period of zero technology! They power down their phones, computers, laptops, iPad's, TV's etc. and instead spend the day, distraction free, together. I loved this idea and decided that for 2021 I am going to do the same thing. Every Saturday night, I am going to power down my computer and my phone (I don't think I have every turned it off) until Monday morning. I want Sunday to feel different from every other day of the week. I want to spend it seeking the Lord and learning how to better hear Him. (of course I will still have to participate in our ward's half hour zoom class every Sunday afternoon - but I will do that on my husband's computer.) I am excited to try this for the first time TONIGHT!!
My hope is that I develop a habit of tuning out the world and pursue my goals and dreams WITH the Lord.
I would love to know what you discovered as you read Doctrine and Covenants section one this past week.
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