Revelation

You know the great thing about our Church? Not to brag or anything, but its the fact that we believe in personal revelation. Or any revelation for that matter. Revelation is sooOO critical in moving the work forward. I mean, in knowing what God wants for us revelation is key in helping us understand that.

There comes points in our lives where commandments of God seem to contradict each other. Take Nephi's dilemma for example. The Spirit told him to kill Laban for the plates. Now....isn't that totally against what he was taught? Hello. Don't kill people. Isn't that a major commandment?

I admire Nephi for the fact that he was so in tune with the Spirit that he knew it was the Spirit talking to him. For all anybody else knows it could have been the crazy thoughts of his own mind, but he was righteous enough to know it was not his voice but the Spirit's. Granted, it still took the Spirit three times telling Nephi before Nephi went ahead and did it.

But that's what I mean. What happens when we get to that point? We better believe and have faith in the power and reality of revelation.