I'm always interested to see how teaching from the scriptures makes such a difference. Alma was right. If you use the word of God it makes all the difference! I really have a testimony of the scripture that says:
Alma 31: 5
5 And now, as the apreaching of the bword had a great tendency to clead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.
Recently my daughter has been nagging me to have a later bed time. It's the usual "All my friends go to bed at such and such a time....why do I have to...."
Finally, last night I read a scripture to her that seems to have ended the discussion. I read D&C 88:124 to her. It says:
124 Cease to be aidle; cease to be bunclean; cease to cfind fault one with another; cease to dsleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be einvigorated.
We talked about what all the different phrases in there mean (idol versus idle, being clean versus being unclean, having an invigorated mind, etc.). And that was about it!
When she said her prayers that night she thanked Heavenly Father for a number of things - including that scripture - and then hopped into bed at the regularly scheduled bedtime!
Perhaps we're finished with that issue now! Yea!!
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