ATOMS stands for "Aaron's 'Things of My Soul'". As such, this blog is a compilation of my spiritual thoughts and insights as I study the scriptures, pray in faith, and have daily experiences. These things are the symbolic atoms that make up my life, and are personal to me. With the belief that "there hath no temptation [or experience or trial or joy] taken [me], but such as is common to man" (1 Corinthians 10:13), I post them in the hope that they bless someone, somewhere, somehow. If it be one soul, my joy is full.

Please feel free to browse, to search, to comment, to correct false doctrine you find, and to let me know if they have been positively (or negatively) influential to you.

It is my prayer that we all sail the seas of life with happiness, and obtain the wonderful blessings that God has in store for us, including living with our righteous loved ones forever, the answers to every question in life, and eternal happiness.

My posts are not to be taken as the official doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are a reflection of my progressive learning and growing into said doctrine, though.

Sunday, 30 August 2015

Have You Been Grafted In?

What does "grafted" mean?

I think of a giraffe, for some reason, in my initial ignorance of its significance.

Graft
/ɡrɑːft/
a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap.

What a phenomenon!

I can - speaking lightly - chop off a this branch from one tree, slice another tree and stick that branch in, and if their *sap system* (will research for correct terminology) connects, then that branch is now a part of that tree, and will grow! That branch has been grafted in.

Nephi speaks of being grafted in an interesting way, that I haven't noticed before.

"And after the house of Israel should be scattered they should be gathered together again; or, in fine, after the Gentiles had received the fulness of the Gospel, the natural branches of the olive tree, or the remnants of the house of Israel, should be grafted in, or come to the knowledge of the true Messiah, their Lord and their Redeemer."
- 1 Nephi 10:14

It is interesting how he equates the process of being grafted in with - spiritually speaking - coming to the knowledge of the true Messiah.

Just as the attached branch I typed of earlier needs to have its sap system connect with the host tree's sap system, we also need to be attached to the source of Christ.

His teachings, his truths, His ways, His love, needs to be inside us, flowing in us. We need to feel it in our bones, our souls, our lives. Just like the sap from the tree fueling the grafted branch.

"The solutions to life's problems are always gospel solutions." Jeffrey R Holland said.

Have you a struggle in life you desire to overcome? Learn how Christ would handle it.

Have you a wayward friend or family member in need of God's light? Learn how Christ would love them.

Have you a question, burning your soul? Learn of Christ's answers.

Nephi said, "And it came to pass after I, Nephi, having heard all the words of my father, concerning the things which he saw in a vision, and also the things which he spake by the power of the Holy Ghost, which power he received by faith on the Son of God." (1 Nephi 10:17.)

He used the word "receive". The power is not ours to produce. It is God's to give.

Christ said: "I am the true vine." (John 15:1.)

Let's be grafted to Him.

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