As I have started reading the Book of Mormon again recently a lot has had a different meaning this time than any of the other times I've read the Book of Mormon. I truly believe this is what makes the Book of Mormon the best book ever, you can read it repeatedly back-to-back and continue to get something else out of it. The Book of Mormon definitely has the answers to our questions and concerns. The Book of Mormon begins with a family. The father's name is Lehi. He has four sons (oldest to youngest): Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi. In chapter 8 of 1 Nephi (page 14 of the Book of Mormon) Lehi has a vision. He sees many things, but he tells of a river of water in this chapter, 1 Nephi 8: 26. Nephi (Lehi's youngest son) desires to know about the vision his father saw, so he prays about it. The spirit comes and he has a vision about the things his father has seen. After Nephi has his vision his older brothers complain that they don't understand. Part of the reason they can't understand is because they didn't turn to the Lord for answers. Nephi interprets some of the "dream" to them. A particular verse caught my attention. It is 1 Nephi 15:27, It says: And I said unto them that the water which my father saw was filthiness; and so much was his mind swallowed up in other things that he beheld not the filthiness of the water.
As I have pondered on this scripture I have had some thoughts. One of them was, "How could Lehi not have noticed the filth?" It doesn't seem hard to notice if water is clean or filthy. Maybe if it said dirty I wouldn't have thought that, but filth I would think he should notice. After this thought came to my mind our lives today. Sometimes we don't notice how "filthy" the things of the world are today. We have so many things that society feels are okay, that just aren't. These will not bring us into the purity of the atonement, but drag us down into the dredges of Satan. Avoid all things that are filthy. Notice the things we are doing and stay in the clear water. No one wants to swim in the filthy water! Sin can cloud our minds and we don't notice the filth of the water. Evaluate the water (or choices) you are near and be wise. Avoid the filthy water of Lehi's vision!
As I have started reading the Book of Mormon again recently a lot has had a different meaning this time than any of the other times I've read the Book of Mormon. I truly believe this is what makes the Book of Mormon the best book ever, you can read it repeatedly back-to-back and continue to get something else out of it. The Book of Mormon definitely has the answers to our questions and concerns. The Book of Mormon begins with a family. The father's name is Lehi. He has four sons (oldest to youngest): Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi. In chapter 8 of 1 Nephi (page 14 of the Book of Mormon) Lehi has a vision. He sees many things, but he tells of a river of water in this chapter, 1 Nephi 8: 26. Nephi (Lehi's youngest son) desires to know about the vision his father saw, so he prays about it. The spirit comes and he has a vision about the things his father has seen. After Nephi has his vision his older brothers complain that they don't understand. Part of the reason they can't understand is because they didn't turn to the Lord for answers. Nephi interprets some of the "dream" to them. A particular verse caught my attention. It is 1 Nephi 15:27, It says: And I said unto them that the water which my father saw was filthiness; and so much was his mind swallowed up in other things that he beheld not the filthiness of the water. 
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