Every
time I read Mosiah 27 I yearn for a similar experience for my children who see
dimly the truths of the gospel. Even
dimly is an exaggeration for one – more like she can’t see at all. She has said she does not believe the things
we believe. How can that be when at one
point her testimony was so powerful and she loved her Savior so much that she
sang of Him from the moment she woke up in the morning to the moment she
retired at night – or it was so late she knew we wanted to sleep? It makes no sense to me at all.
Yet
Alma’s father, Alma the prophet, served the Lord diligently as he prayed for
his wayward son. He had faith the Lord
would provide a way. As miraculous as
that way was, and I would think seeing an angel of the Lord is as good as it
gets, I too was rescued from a dark abyss through no goodness of my own but by
the prayers of my parents who served diligently all their lives in building the
kingdom of God. I have that same faith
that some day, some how my daughter will be humbled to fall on her knees and
admit her complete dependence on the Lord to save her from the dark abyss that
surrounds her. I read yesterday in
Mosiah 26:30 where it says: “Yea, and as
often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses.” That said, I guess she has as many tries as
it takes to return. The real urgency is
that every day she waits is a day of peace she has sacrificed to her wayward
ways. It is also one less day she will
have to make things right with the Lord.
You can’t argue that he is hastening his work on the earth, or that the
world is becoming more and more evil daily.
The time to repent is NOW!
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