Week 1

Dear Readers,
I am making this blog to fulfill an assignment for my Book of Mormon class, but I am more than excited for this wonderful opportunity to share my testimony and hopefully touch others with what I believe.  Thanks for stopping by!

Week 1

This week we read Alma 30-35 and I was blown away by how much this passage touched me.  There were so many things in these scriptures that I felt could not have come at a more opportune time; I definitely needed to hear them.  One verse in particular that stood out to me was Alma 32:27.  It reads "But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words."
I love that this verse talks about only having a particle of faith.  Sometimes, that's all we can come up with and it's easy to believe that that small amount of faith is not good enough or that Heavenly Father will not accept it.  However, it is the opposite.  God will take everything we have to give Him and expound upon it.  He recognizes when we are doing our best and He will help us make the difference.  When we give Him a particle of our faith and show Him desire to do better, He will bless us with a testimony and knowledge of Christ so that our faith will grow.
When I read this I was reminded of one of my favorite hymns, Where Can I Turn for Peace?.  There is one line that says "He answers privately, reaches my reaching."  I think this applies to Alma 32:27.  Sometimes we reach as far as we can but it still doesn't measure up.  However, Heavenly Father acknowledges our effort and reaches the rest of the way.  He makes it possible for us to become the men and women that we never thought we could be.  And what a blessing this is!!

Have a great week!