The Lord, for years, had promised the Nephites that if they would have faith and be obedient, they would prosper in the land, and that they would have His protection. he showed them that time and time again
Sometimes, that protection came in the form of a warning. When Nephi and his family landed in the promised land, Laman and Lemuel started making plans to kill him because somehow he had ended up to be their leader. Nephi was warned to take his family and establish themselves elsewhere.
That protection also shows itself in the form of strength and ability. Many of the battles that the Nephites won were only won because of the strength of the Lord was with them, and they were able to defeat their enemies.
The Nephites began to fall away and lose their faith, and they were less obedient. As they became this way, they had less and less of God's protection.
"25 Therefore the Lord did cease to preserve them by his miraculous and matchless power, for they had fallen into a state of unbelief and awful wickedness; and they saw that the Lamanites were exceedingly more numerous than they, and except they should cleave unto the Lord their God they must unavoidably perish.
26 For behold, they saw that the strength of the Lamanites was as great as their strength, even man for man. And thus had they fallen into this great transgression; yea, thus had they become weak, because of their transgression, in the space of not many years." (Helaman 4:25-26)
I like that they even recognized it and knew what it was that was causing them to not be able to win against the innumerable hosts of the Lamanite army. It seems very obvious to me that my life gets harder to live when I am in state of less obedience. I hope I can avoid even finding myself in that situation, let alone realizing that the Lord will not be able to protect me because I am not doing what He wants me to do.
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