I felt totally jittery about the situation and dissappointed and amazed with dishonest people and frustrated and worried about the world I was raising my babies. The money obviously was a sad thing to lose out on but $100 isn't the end of the world and so I wasn't sure why I was feeling so frustrated with his dishonesty. So I turned to the scriptures and I was reading 1 Nephi chapter 19
7 For the things which some men esteem to be of great worth, both to the body and soul, others set at naught and trample under their feet. Yea, even the very God of Israel do men trample under their feet; I say, trample under their feet but I would speak in other words they set him at naught, and hearken not to the voice of his counsels.
8 And behold he cometh, according to the words of the angel, in six hundred years from the time my father left Jerusalem.
9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.
It is amazing what Christ endured. When I think of it I feel very humbled. I sit here feeling violated over something so trivial and he suffered innumerable emotional, physical and verbal threats and was violated in almost every way . . . that was in his personal life, not counting the pain he felt for us with his atoning sacrifice in Gethsemene. What a man, what a sacrifice, what an inspiration.
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