40 Day Walk with Christ - Day 22

Read Alma 59-63
Mark & Ponder Alma 41:10
Scripture of the day: "For I was hungered, and ye game me meat; i was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me." (Matt 25: 35-40)
Thought for the day: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." (Aristotle)

I can't believe I'm already through Alma.  Usually it takes FOREVER to get through Alma and you feel like you've been in the war chapters for ages.  But I'm done already.  Crazy.

History always repeats itself.  We are supposed to learn from our mistakes but we just seem to repeat them over and over again.  These last chapters sound like a frightening view of our future.  Our current government leaders want to fundamentally change America.  They want government to have all power.  They want to take away our freedom and turn us into slaves.  Even when the people don't want something they jam it down our throats anyway (Obama-care).  They have an agenda and are willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want.  In Alma 62:3-10 Moroni raises the title of liberty and marches through the land gathering all those who want to fight for freedom and to get their country back.  They fight, they win, and then "for the safety of their country" they execute all those "found denying their freedom."  I can seriously see this happening in our country.  Maybe not the whole march thing seeing as how we don't really walk anywhere in the country.  But even now voices are being raised in defense of our freedom.  I wonder if we will be able to turn things around or if it will really come down to civil war.  We live in scary times but it certainly isn't the first time in history that evil men have conspired to overthrow freedom.