Understanding

March 6

Enos 1

 2 And I will tell you of the wrestle which I had before God, before I received a remission of my sins.

• Don't you think that we can define the troughs of living the Doctrine of Christ as a wrestle that we have before God. 

 3 Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the forests; and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart.

 4 And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens.

• As the knowledge that Enos' Father gave him is understood (sunk deep into my heart), he gains the intrinsic motivation (my soul hungered) to act in doctrine (kneel down before my Maker) and apply the Atonement to his life (supplication for mine own soul).

D: Accepting the Atonement

P: The Doctrine of Christ

A: Act in faith and it will turn to repentance. 

 

 12 And it came to pass that after I had prayed and labored with all diligence, the Lord said unto me: I will grant unto thee according to thy desires, because of thy faith.

• As long as we are faithful then we will be given according to our desires. Ps. 37:4
• • Why? Because the Lord trusts that our desires are aligned with his will. Hel. 10:5

 22 And there were exceedingly many prophets among us. And the people were a stiffnecked people, hard to understand.

• Stiffneckedness is nothing more than shutting out the Holy Ghost from moving doctrine to the heart.