Destruction Sounds Bad

The Content

Alma 44

Verse 4

Now ye see that this is the true faith of God; yea, ye see that God will support, and keep, and preserve us, so long as we are faithful unto him, and unto our faith, and our religion; and never will the Lord suffer that we shall be destroyed except we should fall into transgression and deny our faith.

The Comments:

Moroni goes on to utter words that can guide us through our trials.

“The true faith of God”

God will look out for us if we are righteous. That’s the condensed version.

So is this a promise? A covenant?

God=Support, keep and preserve us

Us=Be faithful unto God and our religion

Interesting that the next bit says that they Lord won’t allow us to be destroyed unless we fall into transgression and deny our faith. He doesn't say hurt or stressed out or sick or sad. He says destroyed.

Which, in my opinion, can mean in war (physical) and our daily spiritual battles with Satan and temptation.

My Patriarcle Blessing states that Satan cannot destroy me without my consent. I guess this means that the above promise applies to me too. Which means it probably applies to you as well.