Flooding My Life with the Book of Mormon 2.0

2 Nephi 9:17 O the greatness and the justice of our God! For he executeth all his words, and they have gone forth out of his mouth, and his law must be fulfilled. To fulfill is to do what is required by agreement or contract. The law is God's contract with me. For ancient Israel, the contract was the law of Moses. In my day, the contract is the law of the gospel. When I perform the terms of the contract, God will fulfill His part of the agreement. When I exercise faith, repent, receive baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and endure to the end in loving the Father and the Son and my neighbor, Christ will justify and sanctify me and grant me eternal life. The contract is certain, and the promise is sure.

2 Nephi 8:10 Art thou not he who hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? God's defining miracle for Israel was the Exodus, when He and He alone freed them from Pharaoh and slavery. His defining miracle in my life is redemption, when He and He alone will free me from Satan and the slavery of sin and death. The resurrection will be for me as the parting of the Red Sea, and He will bring me into the promised land of the celestial kingdom. 

2 Nephi 2:3 Wherefore, thy soul shall be blessed, and thou shalt dwell safely with thy brother, Nephi; and thy days shall be spent in the service of thy God. Wherefore, I know that thou art redeemed, because of the righteousness of thy Redeemer; for thou hast beheld that in the fulness of time he cometh to bring salvation unto men. Lehi knew his son had been redeemed because of a vision Jacob had while he was still young. The boy had been visited by Christ, and only a redeemed and sanctified person could receive such a visitation. Thus, Lehi was assured of Jacob's redemption and standing with God.  I am redeemed by Christ, not by my own efforts. I have to do my best, but only Christ can make it happen. My righteousness is always insufficient. Christ's infinite righteousness is always required.

1 Nephi 15:36 Wherefore, the wicked are rejected from the righteous, and also from that tree of life, whose fruit is most precious and most desirable above all other fruits; yea, and it is the greatest of all the gifts of God. And thus I spake unto my brethren. Amen. Nephi puts the fruit of the tree of life into perspective. The love of God, as evidenced in the Atonement of Jesus Christ, bears a most valuable and desirable fruit, even my salvation. I am valuable to God because I am part of His family. My salvation and exaltation are His one and only priority, and He and His Beloved Son have paid dearly to enable me to bear fruit and to be the fruit of Their labors.  Thus, I am precious and desirable above all else in the universe, not because I am all that special in and of myself, but because God loves me and has set my price--the price of redemption through the suffering and death of His Son.  Knowing that, I ought to value myself as highly as God values me. I cannot take Hi...

1 Nephi 13:37 And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day , and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be. I have until the very end of time itself to get my act together. God has given me ample time to repent and grow. If I procrastinate, however, time will eventually run out. There really is a last day , and when that day arrives, the time to change will be past. I will have to move on and shift from my probationary mortal state to my final state. My trial will be over, and real life--my eternal life--will commence. Those who have passed the test will be raised up to a higher sphere by the power of Christ. He will reach down from His throne and pull them up to where He is. I cannot climb up on my own. Christ...

1 Nephi 10:3 That after they should be destroyed, even that great city Jerusalem, and many be carried away captive into Babylon, according to the own due time of the Lord, they should return again, yea, even be brought back out of captivity; and after they should be brought back out of captivity they should possess again the land of their inheritance. Here is the plan of salvation played out symbolically in the history of Israel. They apostatize, rebel against God, their capital is destroyed, they are taken captive and led away, and then when they repent and turn to God, he rescues them and brings them back to their eternal home.  Our mortal lives follow the same pattern. When we sin and rebel, Satan gets hold of us and takes us captive into his kingdom. But when we come to ourselves, turn to God, and repent, He redeems us, rescues us from Satan's grasp, and brings us into the kingdom of God, where we can dwell with Him forever.  Today, we draw hope from the promise of Israel'...