Alma's Desires - Part Two

Alma 13:28-29 After listing things that the Ammonihahites needed to do to repent, Alma enumerated the blessings related.

The first one is one of those commandments/blessings that I find so often in the scriptures. As I've been marking the scriptures with colored pencils, I have a different color for commandments than I do for blessings. But I've come to realize that many commandments ARE blessings. For example, we're commanded to become humble, but humility is also a blessing from the Lord.

So the people are commanded to watch and pray, as I said in the previous post. But they're to pray for a specific blessing: that they are not tempted above that which they can bear. The last part would be the blessing. And what a great blessing! Could that also apply to trials? That we don't have a trial harder than we are able to bear? So that if things are really tough, we know that the Lord has the confidence in us that we can bear this hard thing without losing our testimony.

Alma then lists different blessings that come as a result of repentance and obedience.
1) Being led by the Spirit - If I could have confidence that I was always listening to the Spirit and being led by it, that would give me such confidence and joy!
2) Becoming humble, meek, submissive, patient, full of love and all long-suffering. Here again we see attributes that can either be commandments or blessings. I believe that as we obey and repent, the Lord blesses us with these attributes.
3) Having faith in the Lord
4) Having hope of eternal life
5) Having the love of God always in our hearts
6) Be lifted up at the last day
7) Enter into His rest
8) The blessing of repentance

These are beautiful blessings and well worth all our efforts to be obedient and faithful.