When to Make the Stand

The Content

Alma 44

Verse 11

Now I cannot recall the words which I have spoken, therefore as the Lord liveth, ye shall not depart except ye depart with an oath that ye will not return again against us to war. Now as ye are in our hands we will spill your blood upon the ground, or ye shall submit to the conditions which I have proposed.

The Comments:

Moroni states that he cannot recall the words that he has spoken. He doesn’t back down from the offer he made back in verse 6.

In some ways, this doesn’t feel very compassionate. But, that might be okay.

After all, the Lamanites came threatening the Nephites homes, liberties, wives, children and religion. Perhaps this is a guide for us to know when we should cut off or come down hard on something in our lives that is threatening the items on the list above.

It can be a struggle to understand when exactly it is time to cut a bad influence out of your life. Only the Spirit can truly tell us when kindness and tolerance have reached their limits, and that it is time to take more drastic and permanent action against whatever is leading us astray.