The chapters from Jacob 7 through Mosiah 6 are packed with powerful messages. One account that particularly touched me this time around comes from the first part of Words of Mormon. I want to apply this to help me be a better husband and father.
Mormon, like Nephi, Jacob and the other great prophets, is filled with charity. Mormon is currently watching the Lamanites destroy his people, the Nephites, off the face of the earth. He is in the heat of the battle. He has led his people in these battles. This is not some theoretical thing for him. This is not some distant memory that has had time to soften. Right in the midst of watching the Lamanites brutally destroy his people, he loves his enemy. He regards them as his brethren. He prays and labors for them. He instructs his son to do the same. His only desire is for their eternal welfare.
As I become converted more fully unto Christ, I will also be more filled with this love. This is what I need to better handle conflicts in my relationships, particularly within my own marriage and family. When I feel 'attacked', too often I am prideful and concerned too much about my own feelings or welfare. I turn inward instead of outward. I can learn from Mormon that I need to turn outward and be concerned about my 'brethren'. I know that through the enabling and strengthening power of the atonement of Jesus Christ that I can be more converted to Him and be more filled with this love which He bestows on all of His true followers (Mor 7:48). I can call on His name and exercise faith through my actions. I can work to be less concerned about my own injuries and more concerned about how to help others with their injuries.
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