I'm at chapter 15 in the 1st Book of Nephi right now. I feel like Nephi and the personalities of all his family are really coming alive to me this time around as I read the Book of Mormon. In the latest chapter I've read, Nephi "exhorts with all the energies of his soul" to his brethren to try and get them to believe the words of God. I can't imagine how much of a heartache he must have while trying to help his brethren know the truth, and to have them still reject it.
The attitudes of Laman and Lemuel also are sticking out to me, because they have the attitude that is still around today concerning faith. They want signs. They want Heavenly Father to speak directly to them, but Heavenly Father wants them to exercise faith. Without faith, we are nothing. And they aren't patient enough to try and pray and ask God himself, and to try and feel the answers rather than hear them from the Lord himself. So many people today are still like that.
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