Your Cause

The Content:

Alma 43

Verse 45

Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.

The Comments:

Here we learn that the Nephites are fighting for a better cause than the Lamanites. The short list they give here is that the Nephites are fighting for their: homes, liberty, wives, children and rites of worship and their church.

There is that same list again. It must be important.

In a book called The Killer Angels—based around the battle of Gettysburg in the US Civil War—soldiers often speak of “the cause.”  The reason they’re about to get on a battlefield and kill their fellow countrymen.

I feel like the above listed reasons are the Nephite’s  “Cause.”  This is the reason that they leave their homes, probably live in not so great conditions, eat who knows what and sleep on the ground.

What is our cause today?  Or what do you and I fight for?

Spiritual freedom, mostly.  Right now I have not been called on to participate in physical war. Thank goodness.  But there are plenty of spiritual attacks to keep us busy.

Think about how lucky we are to live today. But don’t forget that at some point it has been testified that our own liberties will fall under attack. At that point we all need to make sure we’re aligned with what our leaders say and are prepared to do what they/the Lord ask of us.