This is the Christ

(Song suggestions to listen to while reading: I Believe in Christ, This is the Christ, & Praise to the Man by Mormon Tabernacle Choir)

I wasn't planning on blogging about this, but I felt inspired to. I was reading in 3 Nephi 11 when Christ descends unto the people in the Americas. This chapter makes me bawl every time. There's a special spirit that comes down whenever I read, "Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name-hear ye him."

In all honesty, I envy the Nephites and the Jews that got to see Christ and His miracles. But I do envy the Nephites more, simply because of their faith. Christ's birth, death, and resurrection had been prophesied by prophets for hundreds of years prior. So to have faith that an event will happen long after you're dead, is unshakable to me.

Then there's the faith of the Nephites that live during Christ's life time. I don't know what the average age of a Nephite was, but I'm going to assume it was at least 70-90 years as average humans now. So those who saw the signs of His birth, saw the signs of His death as well. Now in the scriptures there were lots of nonbelievers who thought it was all merely coincidence, and there were lots of believers who began to believe those who didn't.

To those who continued to believe and as a result, were saved and got to see Christ's coming, their faith is faith I aspire to have. If you think about it, we're put into that same situation in a way. We know Christ came and died and was resurrected; there's history books that state of His birth and death (not the signs but that a figure named Jesus Christ did in fact live on earth). Now, we have modern day prophets that say that He will come again and the righteous will be saved. We have to believe that  that will happen. Whether it's in our life or not.

So to tie the scriptures back to modern day, we need to have Nephite faith. Nephite faith can be tied to pioneer faith. They had been taught what we are taught, but did they know if they would live to see Christ's second coming? Most figured they probably would not, yet they still endured their trials because they knew of the blessings. The blessings of living the gospel will come in this life and in the next, if we have Nephite and pioneer faith. 

Life is tough. Life is getting harder for Christians. "Doubt your doubts, before doubting your faith." Dare to stand alone. Dare to be a Mormon. This is the Christ and He is coming.


As a little heads up, I'm moving to college this week, so I'll try my best in getting blog posts scheduled ahead of time to post for you guys. Thanks for being such a great support. 😊
Love,
Janae