Sariah uses the word "visionary" to mean one who hallucinates. In other words, a crazy person. She had strong enough faith to follow her husband into the wilderness and to leave her nice home behind. But when it looked like his visions had failed and had led to the death of her sons, she stopped believing. We may think our faith is strong when things seem to be working out, but when things start to go wrong, we may doubt. Sometimes God gives us answers and then tests our faith when the answers seem to take us in an unexpected direction. Do we have enough faith to follow the direction we received, or do we want to take over, use our own compass, and pull the Lord's hands off the steering wheel?
Sunday, September 11, 2016
First Nephi 5:2
For she had supposed that we had perished in the wilderness; and she also had complained against my father, telling him that he was a visionary man; saying: Behold thou hast led us forth from the land of our inheritance, and my sons are no more, and we perish in the wilderness.
Sariah uses the word "visionary" to mean one who hallucinates. In other words, a crazy person. She had strong enough faith to follow her husband into the wilderness and to leave her nice home behind. But when it looked like his visions had failed and had led to the death of her sons, she stopped believing. We may think our faith is strong when things seem to be working out, but when things start to go wrong, we may doubt. Sometimes God gives us answers and then tests our faith when the answers seem to take us in an unexpected direction. Do we have enough faith to follow the direction we received, or do we want to take over, use our own compass, and pull the Lord's hands off the steering wheel?
Sariah uses the word "visionary" to mean one who hallucinates. In other words, a crazy person. She had strong enough faith to follow her husband into the wilderness and to leave her nice home behind. But when it looked like his visions had failed and had led to the death of her sons, she stopped believing. We may think our faith is strong when things seem to be working out, but when things start to go wrong, we may doubt. Sometimes God gives us answers and then tests our faith when the answers seem to take us in an unexpected direction. Do we have enough faith to follow the direction we received, or do we want to take over, use our own compass, and pull the Lord's hands off the steering wheel?
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