1 Nephi 9

(Below is a list of questions and quotes that help me think about each verse as I read it. The numbers represent the verses in the chapter.)

The Lord knows our mistakes and weaknesses even before we do and with that infinite knowledge, He prepares a way for us to be delivered from our sins... Even thousands of years before they occur.

5-6. Have you ever done something, just to be obedient, that didn't seem to make sense at the time, only to find out the reason later and then you were glad you obeyed? Why is important to obey The Lord even when we don't fully understand His reasons?

"At least six times in the Book of Mormon, the phrase 'for a wise purpose' is used in reference to the making, writing, and preserving of the small plates of Nephi. We know one such wise purpose - the most obvious one - was to compensate for the  future loss of 116 pages of manuscript translated by the Prophet Joseph Smith from the first part of the Book of Mormon. But it strikes me that there is a 'wiser purpose' than that, or perhaps more accurately, a 'wiser purpose' in that. The key to such a suggestion is in D&C 10:45. As The Lord instructs Joseph Smith on the procedure for translating and inserting the material from the small plates into what had been begun as the translation of the abridged large plates, he says, 'Behold, there are many things engraved upon the [small] plates of Nephi which do throw GREATER VIEWS upon my gospel. So clearly... we got back more than we lost. And it was known from the beginning that it would be so. We do not know exactly what we have missed on the lost 116 pages, but we do know that what we received on the small plates was the personal declarations of three great witnesses, three of the great doctrinal voices of the Book of Mormon, testifying that Jesus is the Christ." - Jeffrey R Holland, Ensign, January 1996

The Lord went to a lot of effort to bring these words to us. How can you show your appreciation to Him for these records which you are so blessed to have?