Flooding My Life with the Book of Mormon 2.0

1 Nephi 8:28 And after they had tasted of the fruit they were ashamed, because of those that were scoffing at them; and they fell away into forbidden paths and were lost. Peer pressure can be totally destructive to our spiritual health. Satan knows how our pride works, and he uses others to wound our pride. It is not easy to remain steadfast in the face of criticism and mocking. Humility and meekness are the antidotes to the poison of pride and humiliation. We must fear God more than we fear man. 

1 Nephi 8:8 And after I had traveled for the space of many hours in darkness, I began to pray unto the Lord that he would have mercy on me, according to the multitude of his tender mercies. God has a boatload of loving blessings in store for us. He wants to reach out and bless us constantly. But He must balance blessings with our need to experience trials. If He took away every trial and affliction immediately as we encounter them, we would not learn to possess our souls in faith and patience. Nevertheless, He has an abundance of loving blessings for us, and He will bestow them upon us according to His wisdom and in His own due time.

1 Nephi 7:14 For behold, the Spirit of the Lord ceaseth soon to strive with them [at Jerusalem]; for behold, they have rejected the prophets, and Jeremiah have they cast into prison. And they have sought to take away the life of my father, insomuch that they have driven him out of the land. I can drive righteousness from me by my choices, and I can hold it at bay by my stubborn rebellion. I can become so hardened that the Spirit of God must flee from me. If I were to persist in such a state to the very end, I would lose all hope. The glorious message of Christ, however, is that if I will turn around, I will find that He has been right behind me all along. I am never beyond his reach if I choose to seek him. God has great patience, but He can judge when men are hardened beyond reach. He expelled Lucifer when He knew he could not be turned. Men can likewise become so determined to choose evil that their time of probation is wasted. Rather than let such evil corrupt the next generation, H...