“Plant This Word in Your Hearts”

Brant Gardner

Here is the next step in the incipient faith of these farmers in Zoramite lands. This is the seed they are to plant, the seed which they must exercise a particle of faith (Alma 32:27) to believe. Alma tells them that faith will begin when they plant in their hearts the possibility of the Atoning Messiah. That is the doctrine on which they are to develop faith, that is the seed that will begin to swell in their hearts. That is the thing that will ultimately make their burdens light. In this case, it is the understanding that will allow their God into their fields, their homes, their closets, and their hearts.

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Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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