Building Barges (Lessons from the Brother of Jared)
Building Barges And behold, I prepare you against these things; for ye cannot cross this great deep save I prepare you. - Ether 2:25 Brother of Jared selecting stones I don't know who painted this picture, so if you do, please let me know so I can give credit where credit is due. Ether 2: 16-20- I find it super interesting that the Lord would give the Brother of Jared (Mahonri Moriancumer) instructions to build something that seems to have such obvious "flaws" as not providing light nor air. As I have pondered on this, I have learned three things so far. First, this tells me that the Lord’s way is not to give us the "whole" of everything all at once. We see this pattern a lot in the early restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints where things were given line upon line, a lot of the time having to be refined through trial and error. After pondering on why that is so, I believe that in the Lord’s wisdom, he knows the growth tha