Question of the day: How do you make sure you aren't putting your light under a bushel?
This passage is the Sermon on the Mount at Bountiful. It does always strengthen my testimony when I see this passage and see how similar it is to what is in the New Testament.
I'm struck again by the commentary to wards the end about how important it is not only to keep the commandments given through Moses, but to now live a higher law including not even being angry with each other. Or if we do get angry with each other we are supposed to reconcile our differences quickly.
This passage is the Sermon on the Mount at Bountiful. It does always strengthen my testimony when I see this passage and see how similar it is to what is in the New Testament.
I'm struck again by the commentary to wards the end about how important it is not only to keep the commandments given through Moses, but to now live a higher law including not even being angry with each other. Or if we do get angry with each other we are supposed to reconcile our differences quickly.
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I find the difference between the wording in verse 14 to be instructional. The Matthew version says "Ye are the salt of the earth...". This is a statement of fact. It has been suggested that what was recorded here in the New Testament was directed to the Savior's apostles, and so the statement of fact was in order.
When Jesus was teaching the people in third Nephi he was definitely speaking to the 'multitude'. This may be the reason the phase is different. Here it is given as a charge, "I give unto you to be the light of the people". This must have struck the people to the heart for here He states, as He had done concerning being the salt of the earth, "Verily, verily", or in other words, truly, truly.
And 'truly" this must have awaken in them the desire to be the "light of this people", for all were converted to the truth not just by Jesus presence but by their exemplary lives and teachings.
So how do we keep from hiding our light beneath the bushel? I suppose the we must become aware of weavings of our lives and make sure we don't bury ourselves (and our light) in the trivial things of day to day and somehow get struck by the Master's injunction to become the light of 'this' people.
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