Solid Ground

(If it seems random to some of you that I am posting thoughts from the Book of Mormon lately, it was because of a recommendation of one of my Proffesor's or religion at BYU)

This week was particularly busy week for me. There seemed to be more homework then I had time, and I just had from one thing to the next to the next. And beyond the stress of going to school and work, there is another stress which everyone is probably feeling right now and that is the stress of uncertainty.

Where will the economy be in a year? Will I have a job? What does the future hold for me, my family and my community?

When confronted with such questions, some choose to think upon and look to happier days and thoughts. They may distract themselves with more trivial desires like movies, sports, shopping, anything to keep their mind off of these and many more unanswered questions.

However, the day comes when these questions are answered. And sometimes to our disliking. This week as I was reading through the Book of Mormon I read through one of my personal favorite chapters in the book of Heleman.

In this particular chapter there is a lot of corruption in society. The head of state, who in the Book of Mormon is the Chief Judge, is a righteous man and a prophet of God. However, even he, this great prophet, becomes concerned for what the future holds for his people. He knows that if the people continue in their corrupt ways they will not be able to be governed by law and will fall in to total chaos or if they were governed by the law it would be to their own destruction.

In this trying moment this prophet remembered something that his father told him as a child. His father said, "And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."

I know that if we wish to have a sure future and foundation we must build that foundation on our Redeemer and his teachings. Without that foundation nothing in life is certain, with it, few things are certain. But one of those few things is that we can know for certain is that if we hold true to the teachings and doctrine of Christ that despite chaos, confusion, storms, trails and a myriad of other things that we will not fall.
Jason Bentley is just a punk college kid who is attending Brigham Young University.