“The works,
and the designs and the purposes of God cannot be frustrated, neither can they
come to naught” (D&C 3:1). Throughout history, when the forces of evil
raged the worst, God has preserved the way for His purposes to be accomplished.
And He has done it through humans.
Consider
Mormon who was raised in the most evil society of ancient America. Consider a 10
year old boy before whom ‘a continual scene of wickedness and abominations was
before his eyes since he was sufficient to behold the ways of man’ being the
only person to be called upon to preserve the ancient record of his people (Mormon
2:2,3,18).
Until 321
A.D., the history of ancient people of America was preserved on golden plates from
father to son or brother to brother, as in the case of Ammaron who inherited
the plates from his brother Amos (4 Nephi 47). This suggests that Amos had
nobody worthy in his immediate family to pass the records onto and neither did
Ammaron.
The Book of
Mormon does not mention any relation between Ammaron and Mormon. It means only
one thing, the society was so evil that a 10 year old boy with no family
relation was the only choice to inherit the responsibility of the plates.
It would
seem that God puts His most valuable and righteous children in the midst of the
most wicked, to create a balance and to preserve His purposes. Think of Noah
who preached repentance for 120 years (Genesis 6:3; Moses 8:17).
How could
not even one person repent in that time? And how amazing is it that his family
remained righteous in the midst of such evil people who had to be destroyed?
Imagine if there was no Noah or if his children became ripe for destruction too….but
God knew Noah and He knew what period of earth’s history to put him into.
The world
is in a bad shape. We are witnessing the spread of evil at such an alarming
rate that we are becoming ripe for destruction. Besides the good people of the
earth who create a balance, the Lord has preserved His covenant people who will
stand at the forefront to establish His purposes.
We, members
of the Church with the covenant upon us, need to be ready to take on the mantle
of Zion when He comes. According to His foreknowledge, the Lord knew who He
could trust to prepare the way, to establish and perpetuate the kingdom. Without
Him we are nothing, but with Him we are everything. He accomplishes His work
through us, His covenant people.
May we look
forward to the day when ‘the righteous shall be gathered out from among all
nations, and shall come to Zion, singing with songs of everlasting joy’
(D&C 45:71). Then we shall sing “the new song of Zion”:
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