Is Your Bow Broken?

My wife wonders why I get up at 4am or so to read and meditate on the gospel. It is because I have been hooked on the spirit and how it makes me feel. Sleep means nothing to that feeling.

Joseph Smith was baptized, received his priesthood and was a true prophet of God well before the Church was established. The Church was established to take the uneducated and teach them the basics of the gospel. So, I wonder, there must be a lot more to the gospel than what is taught in the Church.

It, the Church, is our Mother. Like the Sons of Helaman they were taught on their mothers lap and so are we in the Church. We are given milk, then a little bread and Gerber’s food. After we grow older we are turned over to our Father for instruction on the higher things of life, or should we say, the meat of the gospel.

Mother can bring us so far and then this body needs meat. If we look at the three most important people in the Churches beginning, namely Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor we have a pattern of what our life should be like. Yes, they helped the Church realize the basics and gave us a chance to eat a little meat.

Our Father Abraham gave us the chance to do the works of Abraham. How did he live his life? Then we also have the life of lot and his very large family. He and his wife and family all chose to leave the life of Abraham and go to the big city to live. Where they had markets, fine home, goods to buy and sell all kinds of stuff. Gratify all their wants of the flesh.

Another example is our Father Lehi and son’s who also were given the chance to a higher life by leaving the city life and all their possessions of gold, silver, homes, job etc. and go live in a tent out of the city. They lived on what they brought with them for a time and then needed to have more. They needed the meat of the gospel.

Once out in the desert they found that the oil in their lamps was not enough to guide them further. As the virgins found out many of them didn’t have any oil and in this Lehi’s case, Nephi broke his bow. The whole family suffered for lack of meat. Until Nephi could make a bow out of wood and then he asked God where to go to obtain meat.

So, I ask you children-Is Your Bow Broken