"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?"
This is Laman and Lemuel giving in to their fears. Does this sound familiar? This is a battle that I fight daily and it manifests itself through complaining or thinking a situation is too much to handle. It takes work on a daily basis to have complete trust in Christ and to not give into fear and weakness.
My body in its infirmities cries out, "No! It's too much, it's a hard thing." But, through quiet mediation my spirit says, "Yes, I can do this with the Lord's help for with Him nothing is impossible." The battles of life are won through the quiet daily victories of the spirit as I try to subdue the weaknesses of the flesh. The fight to give the Savior all my burdens is real as the flesh tries to hang on to the stresses and worries of life.
Nephi is an example to me of how to react when the call comes from the Lord:
"Therefore go, my son, and thou shalt be favored of the Lord, because thou hast not murmured.
"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them."
The thing that stood out to me as I read this passage was the phrase, "And it came to pass" which to me denotes the passage of time before he responded to his father. I can imagine Nephi taking the time to ponder and pray deeply upon the things he was asked to do. He too may have had to fight that internal battle between the flesh and the spirit.
He's an example to me of someone who turns to the Lord for strength and then turns that strength into faith and action.
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