Alma 37:6-12

Alma is explaining to Helaman about how important the plates and records of the people are for teaching the gospel to the people. And he talks about how they have been preserved by God for His future purposes, and he theorizes what those may be, but then stops and says that He doesn’t really know, but God does and He trusts that. I am grateful that his theorizing and thinking was included. I feel like this is how my mind works in the gospel. I think about things and try to make sense of them. And I feel good about that, like it is okay. But then in the end, I have to remember that they are just my ideas, and they could be only partially right, as Alma was here, or not right at all. But really, in the end I just have to have enough faith to do what God asks, often without really understanding how and why.

I recently was asked to give a talk on Family Prayer, and had this type of experience with the topic. As I pondered and studied I was able to come up with ideas about why it is a blessing for our families to pray together. And I felt good about what I discovered. But there are still things about prayer itself that I don’t fully understand. And that is where my faith that leads to obedience has to take over

Alma 37:6-12