✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 30 ✨ Slothful and Unwise Servants

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✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 30 ✨
Slothful and Unwise Servants

📝 Their Message (Summary)
When Israel rejected intimacy with God on Mount Sinai, they received what they asked for: rules upon rules. Exodus 20 shows the invitation to meet God face to face. Exodus 21 begins the handbook of regulations. The parallel today is sobering: when handbooks and policies are placed on the same level as scripture, we may be revealing our own unwillingness to seek God directly.

Jeremiah warned, “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD” (Jer. 17:5). Joseph Smith echoed the same: if we lean on men rather than the Lord, our minds will be darkened (TPJS p.237).

Alma, when troubled over the sins of the people, did not consult a handbook. He poured out his soul to God, and in that moment God blessed him with a covenant of eternal life (Mosiah 26). His blessing came not because he was strong, but because he inquired of the Lord.

The Lord Himself has said: “It is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant” (D&C 58:26). True wisdom is not found in rulebooks, but in wrestling with God, fearing to do wrong in His sight, and receiving His word directly.

🔥 My Reflection
This presses on me. How often do I prefer the safety of rules instead of the risk of real relationship with God? Rules are easier—they don’t require wrestling, fasting, or pouring out my soul. But they also don’t bring me into His Presence.

I don’t want to be a slothful servant, waiting for a handbook answer for every decision. I want to be a wise servant who inquires of the Lord. Alma’s covenant came because he prayed until heaven answered. How many covenants and encounters have I forfeited because I settled for secondhand instructions?

🕊️ The Invitation
Ask yourself: Am I depending on handbooks, leaders, or cultural patterns to do the wrestling with God that I am called to do?

Pray this week in Alma’s spirit:
“Lord, I fear to do wrong in Your sight. Show me Your will. Teach me to inquire of You in all things. Let me not be slothful or unwise, but faithful, that I may be called Yours.”

 

🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.
Previous: Post #29 — Invite the Cross to Do Its Deadly Work Within Us
Next: Post #31 — (coming soon)

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