Thursday, June 5, 2014

1 Nephi 5





While Nephi and his brothers were away obtaining the brass plates for their family’s improvement, the problems they ran into caused a delay in their return to their parents in the wilderness.  Naturally, their mother was worried, and even distraught, fearing something had happened to her sons.  Rarely do we hear women speak in the scriptures, but Chapter 5 of 1st Nephi contains a wonderful example of a couple working together through a problem.  Lehi’s wife, Sariah, complained to Lehi with a bold freedom of expression.  She enumerated the wrongs she felt he had committed.  As she spoke, Lehi listened to her concerns.  When she had expressed all she felt, Lehi spoke, and Sariah listened.  And rather than Lehi using his comments to refute Sariah’s opinion, or to cause her to regret how she felt, Nephi tells us that his father used his comments to comfort his mother.  In a world so filled with harshness, it’s nice to come across an example of a soft answer turning away wrath.  (See Proverbs 15:1)

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