alma 1: 15 - 33
have you ever felt teased, mocked, or persecuted for keeping the commandments? if so, how did you respond?
--> living in utah, something that surprises me is how often i feel ridiculed by people of my own faith. i haven't had many bad experiences with people that don't belong to the church, but have had quite a few with people within the church. just this past christmas, i had a number of conversations with a boy that didn't have the same moral compass as me. not saying one is more righteous than the other, we just saw things within the gospel differently. in the moment, i was able to be strong and stand up for what i knew to be right (and that standing up was so much easier because i had decided before i was in the situation what my standards would be...) but after the fact, i had a little of a meltdown. i had never felt so challenged and felt it was so wrong to feel so challenged by someone that is supposed to believe in the same things as me. it was another good lesson to me that the only person my righteousness really matters to is my Heavenly Father. as long as i am right with Him, it doesn't matter what anyone else says or does or thinks or feels about the way i choose to live the gospel. thank goodness for that!
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