"And now it came to pass that Zeniff conferred the kingdom upon Noah, one of his sons; therefore Noah began to reign in his stead; and he did not walk in the ways of his father.
For behold, he did not keep the commandments of God, but he did walk after the desires of his own heart. And he had many wives and concubines. And he did cause his people to commit sin, and do that which was abominable in the sight of the Lord. Yea, and they did commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness."
Mosiah 11:1-2
What strikes me here is the idea that Noah "did walk after the desires of his own heart" ... and that was evil. Our society is pretty dedicated to the "follow your heart philosophy. ... And the thing is, that *can* be good, if we have pure hearts that are dedicated to God, but typically we need to go through the "mighty change of heart" that it talks about in Alma 5 before we can trust that. Otherwise, we end up like Noah here... going after the *evil* desires of our hearts.
Today, let's work with God so that we have no more disposition/desire to do evil. Let's let him cleanse our hearts, and do his will and his commandments rather than our own, as he teaches us a different, better way.
No comments:
Post a Comment