Mosiah 7 - What Holds me Bondage?

Verses 29-33

I can’t close my scriptures without commenting on these verses some.  I watch the struggles my two daughters are going through and they are tremendous.  I am helpless to them.  These are their struggles.  To me it is so easy to figure out.  The Lord has promised us – and He doesn’t lie – that He “. . . will not succor [us] in the day of [our] transgressions; but [I] will hedge up their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a stumbling block before them.  V30 And again, he saith: If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the chaff thereof in the whirlwind; and the effect thereof is poison.”

The next two verses are as pertinent.  Why should we be surprised when we find that we’re having some pretty serious trials when we do nothing to be in good with Heavenly Father?  It may seem that some are turning to worldly ways and having a good life, but rest assured there will be serious trials.  I see it in the lives of my nieces and nephews who also struggle with keeping the covenants they have made with the Lord.  Do we really become so blind to the ways of the Lord when we turn against His ways and let Satan be our master?  Apparently so, because try talking reason to someone who has turned away from righteousness.  There is an excuse for everything.  Their own logic is laughable. 

So how does this pertain to me?  Since this is my own scriptural musings?  Well, I wrote at the end of this chapter:  “What holds me bondage?”  There are many ways to sin.  I’m subject to temptations as much as the rest and I need to remember these verses and stay on the Lord’s side else not be surprised when I “reap the east wind”.