It strikes me how Nephi believed he was not a powerful
writer, when his words are loved and known by so many. He needed the feedback
of seeing and feeling people being moved by his speaking to know it was having
an effect. You don’t get that same feedback from writing, especially when your
words are written for people who aren’t even alive yet. It must have taken a
great deal of courage and faith for him to keep going and engraving and writing.
And what a good example of patience and faith when you don’t see immediate
results, or any results, for as long as you keep obeying. And yet, the
blessings are there!
I am struck in verse 3 by how much he loved his people, that
he worried and cried over them at night. What a big heart and great love!
I just read an article this morning by a Jewish woman who
had coverted to the Church and her reasons why. So when Nephi writes of the
Jews and to the Jews, it takes on new and important meaning for me this
morning. I am grateful that I read that article this morning, so I can feel the
love and tug of culture and history pulling on Nephi as he writes to his people
he left behind.
I’m also struck by how boldly Nephi testifies. That
something that has been on my mind a lot lately. He doesn’t shrink from calling
sin a sin, testifying of Christ, and not be cowed at all by doubters. He just
knows, and he tells it “plainly” as he says.
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