In Alma chapter 5, verse 6, we read, "Have you sufficiently retained in remembrance the captivity of your fathers? Yea, and have you sufficiently retained in remembrance his mercy and long-suffering towards them?" I have thought about these lines this week and how they apply to my life. Have I sufficiently retained in remembrance the times when I felt captive--captive by sin or circumstance, and the Savior delivered me? This has happened many times. I have at times felt boxed in with no apparent means of escape or delivery and the Savior has delivered me. Have I retained in remembrance his mercy and long-suffering towards me? He has been very merciful and long suffering. He has been very merciful and long suffering towards me. My prayers and my longings go on and on and sometimes I seem to be working on the same things for years, and yet he hears my prayers, He loves me, and He continues to lift and support me.
In the same chapter of Alma, verse 16 another question is given, "Do you look forward with an eye of faith...?" So there it is--in the same chapter we are told both to look back and remember what the Lord has done for us and then to look forward with an eye of faith. I think this is wonderful counsel. No matter what is happening in the world around me, no matter the sin, the wars, the tumultuous times, I want to press forward with an eye of faith. I want my eyes to be on the Savior and I want to pattern my life after His. Oh, how I look forward to His second coming.
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