Faith

Our April issue of the church magazines arrived today.  In the Ensign, the magazine for adults, there is a four-paragraph article right after the First Presidency message entitled “My Faith Experiment” and was geared toward the youth.  The writer talked about his Sunday School class of not-so-reverent 13-year-olds that had a teacher to tried her best to teach by the Spirit.  At the end of one lesson, she challenged the class to read the Book of Mormon every day.

One day he’s reading in Alma 32 and “was impressed by the idea of a faith experiment.”  Having just learned in school about conducting scientific experiments, he knelt down and told Heavenly Father that he was beginning the faith experiment and asked that he would come to know whether the Book of Mormon was true.

For some reason, mention of this faith experiment reminded me of what I’m reading in the Bible.  I’m in the book of Leviticus.  For most of the book thus far, God has been giving instruction on the different sacrifices for such-and-such a situation.  They’ve already been given very specific instruction on how to build the tabernacle back in the last few chapters of Exodus.  These newly-freed children of Israel needed very specific instruction.  They had been in Egypt for 400 years and had very likely grown lax in their worship of God, had likely even begun to worship as the Egyptians did.

But why were they given these instructions, this law?  My understanding is to show obedience to and faith in God.

The more I read about these different sacrifices, the more I understand mention of them throughout the rest of the scriptures.

How faithful are we in our worship of the Savior and Heavenly Father?