Then on the way back to the wilderness, Laman and Lemuel rebel again. Joining them is part of ishmael's family and that group wants to go back to Jerusalem.
And my perspective they should have just let them go leave and go back. You seldom change your child who has decided to go another direction with his life.
But for some reason, they just kept admonishing them and they all go into "the wilderness."
Nephi's speech to his brother here is instructive. He speaks of a pattern that can help us learn from life.
1. Be in touch with your feelings ,"ye are so hard in your hearts".
2. Open your mind, "ye are so blind in your minds"
3. Look to the word of the Lord, "ye have not hearkened unto the word of the Lord".
4. Learn from the past, "how is it that you have forgotten? You have seen an angel of the Lord."
5. Recall past spiritual experiences, "have you forgotten he delivered us from Laban and we got the plates?"
6. Trust in the Lord, "the Lord is able to do all things."
That last verse reads specifically like this:
Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do all things according to his will, for the children of men, if it's so be that they exercise faith in him? Wherefore, let us be faithful to him.
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