2nd Nephi 26

The thing that stuck out most to me

in this chapter was verse 22

"...according to the combinations of the

devil, for he is the founder of all these things;

yea, the founder of murder, and the works

of darkness; yea, and he leadeth them by the

neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them

with his strond cords forever."

Satan knows our weaknesses. He also knows

that if he came right out and asked us to do

some big huge sin like adultry.... we would say

NO WAY!!! But, Satan is to smart for that!!

He knows we would say no, so he throws little

things at us, like a fight with our spouse. Not a

big deal, everyone goes through that right?

Spending a lot of time away from home, people

have to work right? Not reading scriptures as a

family, we get busy!! A friendly co-worker of

the opposite sex, totally normal!! Lunch with

that co-worker, it's just business. Telling this friend

about problems in your marriage, you need

someone to talk to right? But, all of these things

although they may not seem so badbad on their

own, they are a recipe for disater. Satan's recipe

to make us more comfortable in situations

that we should not be in, until...

It's to late, we have no

control anymore, he has power over us

he tricks us into doing his will. Little by little !!

We need to be very careful of the choices we make.

Although they may seem small and insignificant at the

time, they lead to decisions that would take us

further away from our Heavenly Father.

We need to be strong!!!