Stay Upon His God
In Jacob’s words quoting Isaiah 50, we have this rhetorical question: “Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light?” (2 Nephi 7:10) The message seems to be that if we truly fear the Lord and obey the voice of his servant, we will not walk in darkness. We will have light if we obey His commandments and hear His voice. This reminds me of these words of John to the Saints of his day: “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:5-7). He went as far as to say that we are liars if we claim to have fellowship with the Savior and yet still walk in darkness. The Savior also decla...