Lesson learned during the race of life.

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This week we:

1. Celebrated my daughter birthday at Texas Road House
2. Attended a primary teacher in service training
3.  Completed a challenging test in my designing digital circuit class
4. Completed (...well attempted to complete) a C++ Chess project.
5. And worked mandatory 12 hour overtime shift at work.

In the midst of the chaos driving to start my 12 hour shift I hear George Strait voice came on the radio singing:

"Life’s not the breaths you take

The breathing in and out

That gets you through the day

Ain’t what it’s all about

Ya just might miss the point

Try’n to win the race

Life’s not the breaths you take

But the moments that take your breath away"

To those like me who find the race of life running them, I invite you to slow down and remember what is truly important and what matters most.

The Book or Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ which if you have not read can be heard or read at:
http://scriptures.lds.org/


The first book in the Book of Mormon 1 Nephi, chronicles the life a family that was running their own race so to speak. The Lord was guiding them out of Jerusalem to the land of promise in America about 600 BC. During their journey they experienced serious hardships but they were also miraculously blessed.

There were 3 things that I took way from this weeks study in 1 Nephi:

1. The Lord does not protect the righteous from feeling pain or sorrow. It is interesting that while Nephi was building the ship in the Land Bountiful that the Lord had protected him from his brothers by causing them tremble if they laid their hands upon him. But while they were on the sea the Lord allowed Nephi to be delivered into his brothers hands. From the language used to relate the event of his ordeal at sea, it is clear that he understood that the Lord had allowed him to be beaten and bound by his Brothers so that their wickedness would stand against them.

2. The innocent suffer at the hand of wicked so that God may more fully condemn the wicked.Nephi describes the suffering of not just himself but his parents, his wife and their children during his captivity. Watching your loved ones suffer is in many ways more challenging than facing personal challenges. Nephi murmured not against the Lord and as result was able to get the ship back on the path to the promise land through the Lord.

3. The wicked are susceptible to complacency. Nephi and his family were extremely well provided for in the land Bountiful. The Lord had provide them with literally everything they needed to make their journey to the promised land. It is when we forget to acknowledge the Lord's hand in all things that the Lord's spirit is withdrawn from us and we are lost.

In closing today's post I bear witness that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer.  If we follow his example like Nephi did and remember Him in all things, we will be truly blessed.  I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God and if we come unto him we will truly blessed.  I type this words in the name of Jesus Christ, 

Amen.