Looking for Peace

I am LOVING this blogging about the spiritual. In my little scripture studying today I decided to focus on peace.

At girls camp, as usual I ran my mouth too much. I never mean to offend, but I put one sweet girl on the defensive. I have apologized a few times now, but she doesn't really acknowledge me any more. It has gotten me down a little bit as people usually like me and so I don't really know how to handle it when they don't. I really tried hard and failed I am afraid. It's been hard accepting it, but prayer and this scripture study has helped.

Just thumbing through scripture index, I noticed these

1 Nephi 14:7 the Lord will convince men unto peace or deliver them to the hardness of their hearts

1 Nephi 20:22 there is no peace unto the wicked

2 Nephi 4:27 why should I yield to temptation, that evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace.

Bottom line: Peace comes from God

When you recognize that peace can come from no other source, it is soooo much easier to turn problems, self doubt, pain over to God - not to hold onto it!!! The adversary is real. . when I recognize my feelings were from him not from God, it makes it easier to let them slide away.

Scriptures rock! Prayer is a lifeline.

Day One 2 Nephi 9

Our Stake President made reference to 2 Nephi chapter 9 in his talk up at girls camp. I tried reading this a few times before bed . . not exactly light reading. So I tried again today with a pen and paper, highlighter and AWAKE. Loving it. . .

Notes:

2 Nephi 9:3 Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these things that ye may rejoice, and ^alift up your heads forever, because of the blessings which the Lord God shall bestow upon your children.

I loved this verse. My family has been so political lately. Worrying like crazy that Obama's crazy money spending "will make life for our children and their children" really difficult. To be honest, I've been paying a little more attention to it all, but it is so depressing. I loved this verse because it talked about rejoicing for the blessings God will bestow on our children. God wants us to be happy, he wants us to be blessed. . . the good news through Christ's atonement: RESURRECTION, ETERNAL LIFE, JOY!!!!! . .

Side notes:

- After the fall of Adam we were cut off from the presence of the Lord

- through Christ's infinite atonement we overcome temporal death (spiritual and physical death).

- without our bodies, spirits become subject to the devil

- God must deliver up righteous spirits, hell delivers captive spirits, grave yields up body

- Resurrection - body and spirit become incorruptible & immortal, will have perfect knowledge or guilt, righteous will have perfect knowledge of their enjoyment.

- Judgement - by holy judgement of God. righteous shall be righteous still, filthy shall be filthy still

- Judgement day - Commandeth all men that they must repent, be baptized in his name, perfect faith in the Holy One, or cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.

-- atonement satisfieth the demands of his justice upon those who were not given to his commandments - wo unto him that has the law given & transgresseth them.