sabbath morning scripture share.
i love this scripture: Alma 22:15-18
i read that this morning. some things i love about it:
1. i love the language. "having this wicked spirit rooted out of my breast, and receieve his Spirit that I may be filled with joy.." i understand that. i've wanted that too, so badly. this thing, this imperfection, this corruption rooted in me and i'm desperate to be free of it, i can feel the weight of it, and it colours my life with grey and darkness. and when it's ripped out, roots and all, leaving a clean hole, i'm filled with light and colour and joy and i feel swept clean and free and lightweight.
2. i love how earnest the king is. if i read this part out loud i feel like i am praying, i feel like crying, like prostrating myself down. it's full of feeling and new and powerful child like faith.
3. it reminds me. the king puts such value on knowing God, on being reborn, of feeling his Spirit. he would give up all his power and his possessions, he would give up all his sins, all his comfortable ways of being. he would lay it all down just to know God and to be filled with joy and in this light suddenly so many things just don't look that important anymore. power and possessions and the selfish things i set my heart on. the kings heart is turned to God and there is his treasure also.
and that's my scripture share this morning.
"And it came to pass that after Aaron had expounded these things unto him, the king said: What shall I do that I may have this eternal life of which thou hast spoken? Yea, what shall I do that I may be born of God, having this wicked spirit rooted out of my breast, and receive his Spirit, that I may be filled with joy, that I may not be cast off at the last day? Behold, said he, I will give up all that I possess, yea, I will forsake my kingdom, that I may receive this great joy.
But Aaron said unto him: If thou desirest this thing, if thou wilt bow down before God, yea, if thou wilt repent of all they sins, and will bow down before God, and call on his name in faith, believing that ye shall receive, then shalt thou receive the hope which thou desirest.
And it came to pass that when Aaron had said these words, the king did bow down before the Lord, upon his knees; yea, even he did prostrate himself upon the earth, and cried mightily, saying:
O God, Aaron hath told me that there is a God; and if there is a God, and if thou art God, wilt thou make thyself known unto me, and I will give away all my sins to know thee, and that I may be raised from the dead, and be saved at the last day...."
i read that this morning. some things i love about it:
1. i love the language. "having this wicked spirit rooted out of my breast, and receieve his Spirit that I may be filled with joy.." i understand that. i've wanted that too, so badly. this thing, this imperfection, this corruption rooted in me and i'm desperate to be free of it, i can feel the weight of it, and it colours my life with grey and darkness. and when it's ripped out, roots and all, leaving a clean hole, i'm filled with light and colour and joy and i feel swept clean and free and lightweight.
2. i love how earnest the king is. if i read this part out loud i feel like i am praying, i feel like crying, like prostrating myself down. it's full of feeling and new and powerful child like faith.
3. it reminds me. the king puts such value on knowing God, on being reborn, of feeling his Spirit. he would give up all his power and his possessions, he would give up all his sins, all his comfortable ways of being. he would lay it all down just to know God and to be filled with joy and in this light suddenly so many things just don't look that important anymore. power and possessions and the selfish things i set my heart on. the kings heart is turned to God and there is his treasure also.
and that's my scripture share this morning.
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