Jacob 4
Jacob speaks to the people about the prophets of old and their role in the plan of salvation. We are so blessed to have knowledge of this plan. It makes everything that happens in this earth life make more sense, and gives me hope for the future. Where does this hope come from? Only through the Savior, Jesus Christ.
As I read at this early hour on a Saturday when I really should still be asleep, I marvel at the correctness in the prophecies as it pertains to those who look to Christ as their “stone” as is spoken of in v15. For those who reject this “stone”, it will become as a stumbling block just as Jacob speaks of it concerning the Jews. But then in the next verse, this very stumbling block is said to be the only sure foundation. Until the Jews (and any of us for that matter) accept Christ as our Savior and look to him to be saved from our own foolishness, we will continue to stumble and fall.
In verse 13 it speaks of the Holy Spirit and how it speaks only truth and lieth not. In the next verse it talks about “stiffnecked people” and those who “despise the words of plainness”, aka the scriptures, and those who kill the prophets. Those who do these things cannot understand the things of righteousness. It seems to me to be a terrible cycle. Because a person doesn't have the spirit, they don't understand and reject the things of the spirit which causes them to make even more dumb mistakes and fall deeper into a life of misery. The only solution is to accept Christ but one can't help but wonder how that's going to happen.
Obviously, I'm troubled this morning by the sad state of a beautiful daughter who has turned against the teachings of Christ. She seems to have lost all cognitive thinking as it pertains to those things that bring real joy in life. She has turned against the church and its teachings and claims they are just stories. She has conjured up an imaginary life she lived as a child – that she was treated unfairly and was the unloved child. The interesting thing is that she says to others that her parents have given more to her siblings than they did to her. These are lies and we have the checkbook to prove it if one really wants to go there. She has been the costliest child we've raised. Her mistakes have cost us plenty not to mention the heartache, lost sleep and disappointment. How can she not see? How does this happen? Where does it come from? I can only believe it is from the loss of the spirit and thus being blinded by the lies Satan is telling her. I see a parallel between her and Laman and Lemuel like non other. These injustices are perceived by a blinded reality and she will pass them on to her children should she have them, and the chasm she has created will get even larger. I know she knows they're lies. It is so very sad, and even though I know she knows the truth, and that who she is today isn't really the daughter I raised, I know somehow things will be made right some day. She has every right to reach out to her Savior for help just as I did and her sister did – not to mention the many others who daily come to the reality that Christ is there for her to, and that this life is a probationary period and we are here to make righteous choices so we can return to our Heavenly Father. He too loves us just as parents on earth do. Oh how I hope she does this before she totally trashes her only chance at this earth life and her eternal happiness.
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