Bury Your Swords of Sin

Read to the end! There's a Family Home Evening and a Personal Study activity attached that I've made!

Today I was reading in Alma 24, and I thought there could be a really great activity attached to this chapter.

In this chapter, it talks about the Anti-Nephi-Lehies, and their promise to the Lord. The promise? They repented to the Lord, forsake their sins of killing, and promised to bury their weapons of war for peace instead. They were so thankful for the Lord and the atonement process that allows us to be made clean again, that they did not dare commit that sin again. The easiest way for them to forsake their sins, to leave them behind, and to not be tempted to commit murder was to bury their weapons.

When it came time, the Lamanites came upon them, and they knelt to the ground, praying to God, and praising His name. The Lamanites slew many of them, but after they realized what the Anti-Nephi-Lehies were doing, many of their hearts were softened, and they realized the horror of the sin they were performing.

I also thought the last verse of the chapter was interesting (Alma 24:30). It states, "And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once enlightened by the Spirit of God, and have had great knowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have fallen away into sin and transgression, they become more hardened, and thus their state becomes worse than though they had never known these things."

Let us not forget to use the Atonement that Christ has given us so that we can return to Him and our Heavenly Father. I am so thankful that we are given the process of repenting and forsaking sins. It is a truly humbling experience, and I am more thankful for this blessing we are all given every day.

Heavenly Father has given us the Atonement because He loves us so much, and so perfectly. It is up to US to determine how much we love Him by how hard we are willing to work and sacrifice to make it back to live with Him.

So for this week's printable, I made a Family Home Evening activity, or even just a personal activity you can do for yourself.

There are pages with instructions and three swords on them for you to freely print. And if you do print them, let me know! I'd love to know that they're being used! Write your "swords" of sin that you want to bury and leave behind, and work on it for a month, a week, or even just a day. Let's all become closer to Christ by leaving our sins behind and coming closer to Him.

There are two additional pages as well. One has extra swords if you want to write down more than 3 that are given on the first page. The other page has two bigger swords if you want to cut them out and have a family sword that you're wanting to bury.

Family Home Evening & Personal Study Swords

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