And He That Will Hear My Voice Shall Be My Sheep;

Mosiah 26:21 And he that will hear my voice shall be my sheep . . .

Here lies the secret.  Here lies the answer.  We want to be His people, His sheep.  We want to feel that He loves us.  And the Lord here tells Alma how to tell who those people are.  They are those who hear His voice.

Sometimes in our world there are many voices.  The voices in our 21st Century world seem to be more and louder than at any other time.  They come into our homes and tell us what to buy and how to live and who to laugh at.  Somehow amid all that cacophony we need to learn to sort out the Lord's voice from the other voices.  We need to tune in to His voice and tune out the others.  Then we need to follow Him, to obey Him, to love Him and serve Him.

If we can learn to do this, the Lord promises that we will be His sheep.  The Lord will watch over us and lead us and protect us and gather us.  We will be His.