-if you are Nephi, what are you
thinking? Are you frustrated,
bewildered, wondering why the wicked aren’t just prospering while you –who is
doing what is right- are struggling and meet with failure. Furthermore, the wicked are prospering at
your expense. What is going wrong? Why isn’t the Lord prospering us as we are
doing his work? What to do now?
-in
this life it often appears that the wicked prevail. It appears so because it is sometimes
so. The wicked prosper at the expense of
the righteous. But this condition is a temporary reality –a state of affairs
that is so difficult for us mortals to see while we are so caught up in the
condition of time. Yes, Laban is
prospered at this moment, but his situation is fleeting. In less than twelve hours (much less) his
increase at the hands of Lehi’s boys will not only reverse itself but he will
find himself eternally impoverished. No
observer will esteem Laban as the prospered one. Mortal conditions change so dramatically and
rapidly that we are wise to withhold comparisons and judgment.
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