Doubt

So. One of my New Year goals is to blog every Sunday about a scripture I've read that week. Let's see how long I can keep it up! Here's post number one...

"And there began to be great doubtings and disputations among the people, notwithstanding so many signs had been given." -3 Nephi 8:4

"As Latter-day Saints, ours in not the options of doubting and fearing. Ours is the opportunity of believing and acting." -Gordon B. Hinckley, January 2000 New Era

In this scripture the people begin doubting right before the signs come. How often do we start doubting right before the Lord is about to prove Himself? Satan would have us doubt to draw us further away from the Lord. Why do we listen to his whispering? Why do we even take the time to consider them? To let them in? As President Hinckley hinted to, I think that doubt often sprouts when we are being inactive. I don't me inactive as in not going to church activities and such. I mean it as when we are not anxiously engaged in a good cause. Are we actively building and serving and growing, or are we just going through the motions? I know that if we are actively involved in the good things which the Lord has commanded us to be involved in that doubt cannot arise. When we are sincerely praying, when we are reading our scriptures, when we are fulfilling our church callings, when we are serving our fellow men--when we are doing all these things there is no time in our lives and no room in our hearts to doubt. Doing these things will bring the Spirit into our lives and He will testify of the truthfulness of all things.