Week 8

I love the first few verses in 3rd Nephi 16 when Christ talks about the other sheep that he must go visit. He tells the Nephites that he has other sheep that aren't them and that aren't the people in Jerusalem but other tribes as he called them. I like to think that he went and visited the lost 10 tribes. Maybe not all of them, depending on how spread out they were or how righteous they were, but those are who he visited. I can't wait to read the record that they made when Jesus came and visited them. Because Jesus' visit to the Nephites is the focal point of the Book of Mormon I want to read the other record of His visit to the other tribes. Another part from this reading that I've always loved is when Jesus explains how the Law of Moses is fulfilled in Him. Christ tells the Nephites that He is the one who gave the law and He came to fulfill the law. He's not coming to destroy it or go back on what He or other prophets had testified in the past but that He was the great and last sacrifice and that now He was establishing a higher law. It was no longer an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but it was love your enemies, do good to those that hurt you. The sacrifice was changed from a burnt offering to a broken heart and a contrite spirit. This higher law, although it was less explicit and controlling, was harder to live. In order to love it you had to elevate yourself to a new level of dedication to Christ. To live it, we have to be more like Him and love like He loves. Having charity for all. We have to humble ourselves and be repenting every day.