DAY 153 --- How Can That Be?

I love the Book of Mormon.  This morning I was reading it again and read a statement by those two murmurers.  Right after the angel appeared to them, the angel departed and they said, "How is it possible that the Lord will deliver Laban into our hands?  Behold, he is a mighty man, and he can command fifty, yea even he can slay fifty; then why not us?"

There is so much to learn from this short sermon.  They questioned the voice of an angel.  The angel just came to save their younger brothers, and then they question what the angel said.  They still feared Laban, and what "could" happen.  They knew that he was a strong man.  They questioned whether the Lord could do what the angel said. 

I wonder how often I get an inspiration from my Father, from the Holy Ghost, and then do I often ask, "Well how can that be?"  Laban is a mighty man.

How can we serve a mission?  We are going to be short about $50,000 to serve a mission.  We do not have health insurance and I heard that we have to have health insurance, and the policy the church offers is very expensive, for OLD people, like me. 

It is sure easy to question the word of Father, or the prophets.  It is easier to believe what we know rather than have to exercise faith in the words of an angel, or the words of inspiration.  Or even the words that have rung true in my mind for many months.

I can't help but recall the words about Laman and Lemuel when it says of them, "They did not know the dealings of the Lord."  It also tells that they would not ask of Father because He would not answer them.  Was it because of their wicked ways, their murmuring ways, or their lack of faith? 

I "hear" in my  mind either Father saying or Satan saying, "Oh ye of little faith."  Father shakes His head and wishes that I had stronger faith.  Satan is laughing that my faith is not as strong as it should be. 

How many things in this life, this mortality do I ask "How can that be?"  I am sure the Children of Israel were asking this questions about Manna, about the Red Sea, about the promise of obtaining the promised land.  I am sure the pioneers were questioning "How can that be" when Johnson's army was approaching the Salt Lake Valley, they also questioned when the seagulls were eating all their food supplies. 

I am sure there are many, "How can that be" statements going on in many minds today.  Oh that we had stronger faith, and go about doing what the Spirit tells us to do rather than worry, How can that be?