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.
Leviticus 25 sets a seventh-year rest and a fiftieth-year return, then stops to ask what the people will eat. Here is what it answers and what it leaves open.
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Section 113 answers five questions about Isaiah. For the rod and the root of Jesse it gives ancestors and a duty, and never the person's own name.
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Lamoni tells Ammon he doesn't know what "God" means, so Ammon asks about the Great Spirit instead. Alma 18 follows that one swap to the end.
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Verse 8 gets read to men who don't earn enough. Set after verse 4 and before verse 16, I read it as being about a widowed relative and who acts first.
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Three passages where Jesus says why he came, read side by side, and what changes if you take them at their word.
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The man in verse 10 has an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father, and verse 22 says one law for the stranger and the native. Notes on how I read it.
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Thomas B. Marsh is forgiven and handed the biggest assignment of his life within two verses, and the rest of D&C 112 is how to carry it.
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Alma 17 spends seventeen verses on a road and a prayer before Ammon picks up a sling. Verse 38 says he killed only one man with the sword.
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Paul's warning in 1 Timothy 4 is about people who forbid, and his advice to Timothy is about a gift he is not to neglect.
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A book by a former atheist lays out what history, doctrine and world religions say about Jesus, and says the views are his own.
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