Daily scripture reflections
Short scripture reflections and practical discipleship notes by David Whitaker. The slow, steady work of faith and the kind of life that has to be built on purpose.
LDS Daily Path publishes short scripture reflections and practical discipleship notes. Each entry takes one passage of scripture and works out one clear, honest takeaway a reader can carry into a day of work, family life, and prayer.
I write the way I build a table: slowly, square if I can manage it, and honest about the parts that took more work than I thought they would. No hot takes. No shouting. Just one idea at a time.
— D.
Most of what I care about falls into the durable category. A table that stays square. A habit that holds in a hard season. A sentence that does not come apart when you lean on it.
The charge against Alma and Amulek in Alma 14:5 follows Zeezrom's summary in Alma 11:35, and leaves off the words Amulek put back in the next verse.
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Verse 8 gets skipped on the way to the list of sinners and Paul's own story, and the whole chapter hangs on it.
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Leviticus 20 is a list of penalties, and most of us stop at the list. Verses 4 and 5 are about the neighbors, and verse 26 says why any of it was given.
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Eight verses, one man, and forgiveness in the first sentence. What D&C 108 says to Lyman Sherman, and what it leaves unsaid.
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Alma 13:3 says "foundation of the world," and the same sentence says the men were left to choose first. A look at verses 3 to 5 and at Melchizedek.
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Verse 10 gets quoted as a rule for other people. Read in order, 2 Thessalonians 3 ends up somewhere gentler than its most famous line.
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Leviticus 19 tells a landowner to leave the corners of his field alone. I read it the same week a neighbor asked me about my crabapples.
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Most of D&C 107 is offices and quorums, but the ages in verses 41 to 52 gave me more to think about than the org chart did.
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Alma 12 gets remembered for the second death, but most of it is Alma answering a ruler's question about the flaming sword at the tree of life.
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Everyone asks about the man of sin. I kept stopping at verse 2, where a message carries Paul's name, and at verse 15, where he says what to hold on to.
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