Seminary lessons

I need to start recording some of my favorite seminary lessons. I have loved teaching seminary so much. For anyone to balks at the time, I can reassure you that you receive 10x more than you give with this calling.

Last month, we taught about the Passover and the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. Some things I learned:

--the Lord directed them to perform a very specific animal sacrifice, followed by a very specific ordered dinner at a time of mass chaos. There are plagues everywhere and the threat of all the oldest males in each family dying THE NEXT DAY. But yet they were commanded to do this, and their male children would be saved. It must have been so confusing to them. How could having a dinner and painting my door with lambs blood keep my family safe? You can't even logically equate the two. But Jehovah commanded them and promised they would be safe and those that did it, WERE saved, and those who didn't weren't. Sometimes commandments make no sense, but our ways are not God's ways and obedience will always bring safety and happiness even when we don't understand. Even in the most chaotic and adversity stricken times in our lives, it's important that we follow the commandment to have no other priorities above God, and that we do everything we can to follow Him.

-the Lord directed the Israelites to the Red Sea. He directed them in a cloud by day, and a pillar by night. He could have lead them a different way out of Egypt, but He didn't. He lead them to where they needed to exercise faith.


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