Faith Doesn't Worry (04/27/2014)

Alma 18: When King Lamoni first hears the gospel from Ammon, and when he prays, his experience is so profound that he loses physical strength and faints as if he were dead. The servants take him to his room and lay him on his bed. Everyone presumes he is dead, so they begin their mourning process. When they want to bury him 2 days later, the queen doesn't think he is dead and is stinking yet, so she calls for Ammon. She explains that:
v5 ...some say that he is not dead, but others say that he is dead and that he stinketh, and that he ought to be placed in the sepulchre; but as for myself, to me he doth not stink.

Here is the point that shows Ammon's faith. He never worries that maybe the King is dead.
v6 ...for he KNEW that king Lamoni was under the power of God; he KNEW that the dark veil of unbelief was being cast away from his mind, and the light which did light up his mind, which was the light of the glory of God, which was a marvelous light of his goodness--yea, this light had infused such joy into his soul, the cloud of darkness having been dispelled, and that the light of everlasting life was lit up in his soul, yea, he KNEW that this had overcome his natural frame, and he was carried away in God--

Since he KNEW these thing, he didn't entertain other possibilities that would make him doubt what he knew, and begin to fear or worry. He knew.

A second example of this comes in the next chapter, Alma 19. It actually began in Mosiah 28. The sons of King Mosiah have come requesting permission to go on a mission to the Lamanites. This is an unpleasant idea since the Lamanites have created war on the Nephites many times, and they 'delight' in killing Nephites.

Mosiah 28: 5 And...they did plead with their father many days that they might go up to the land of Nephi.
v6 And king Mosiah went and inquired of the Lord if he should let his sons go up among the Lamanites to preach the word.
v7 And the Lord said unto Mosiah: Let them go up, for many shall believe on their words, and they shall have eternal life; and I will deliver thy sons out of the hands of the Lamanites.

There is the permission of the Lord to Mosiah to let his sons go into dangerous communities to tell those communities they are doing wrong things. In Alma 19 it gives a little more detail into what the Lord told Mosiah.
v 23 Now we see that Ammon could not be slain, for the Lord had said unto Mosiah, his father: I will spare him, and it shall be unto him according to thy faith--therefore, Mosiah trusted him unto the Lord.

If Mosiah had sent his sons to the Lamanites, and then worried the whole time about their safety, that would not have been trusting the Lord to protect them. If he worries, does he really believe? If he really believes, why would he worry?

If we really believe, why would we worry?