Wow, have you read the news lately? I am feeling "awakened to a sense of our awful situation"! I am amazed at the events going on in the world. It is just like the scriptures say, "all things shall be in commotion". Clearly we live in the last days!
Knowing that we are in the last days, and knowing that things are going to get considerably worse before the return of the Savior, doesn't it make sense that we should be diligently preparing for His coming?!
There was an excellent conference talk about being prepared in a manner that never had been known, by Sister Linda K. Burton. She mentioned Alma 49 about Captain Moroni's preparations with his people for the Lamanite armies. I love verse five, "Now at this time the chief captains of the Lamanites were astonished exceedingly, because of the wisdom of the Nephites in preparing their places of security."
This chapter uses the words prepared, preparation, or preparing 11 times! Captain Moroni had his people fortify their cities by building huge banks of dirt and a ditch around the city wall. Later they added pickets to the top of the mounds of dirt. That kind of preparation takes a long time! Surely Captain Moroni didn't know when the Lamanite armies would come upon his people, but he knew they would come! Because he knew this, he used his time wisely to prepare!!!
President Monson often says "When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation has passed".
The Savior will come again! We don't know the day or the hour of His coming, but every day is one day closer!
I am feeling an urgency and want to share this message to everyone who will hear it! Be close to the Spirit, listen to and obey the words of the living prophet, study the scriptures, attend sacrament meeting and the temple, have a year's supply of food and water storage, get out of debt, and do it NOW!!
Then we will be prepared in a way that will fortify us against the enemy in ways that are astonishing!
Because "if ye are prepared, ye shall not fear."
very true
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