Submit to All Things
The words of the angel to King Benjamin included this well-known verse, “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father” (Mosiah 3:19). Three times in this verse we see a form of the word submit : we are to be submissive , to submit to the Lord, and to be as a child which doth submit to his father. The word yield seems to me to also be a synonym of submissive here—we must submit to the enticings of the Holy Spirit. To become a saint —which as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we espouse to be—we must become submissive to the Lord and to His will. The angel sugge...