Day 220

• Principle: Turn aside from the world and mold your life after Jesus Christ
• Book of Mormon Reading: Alma 47:20 - 47:36
  • Amalickiah continues to have things go well for him.  Why do good things happen to bad people?  
• In Matthew 4: 18-22 Jesus Christ invited Peter, Andrew, James, and John to leave their nets and follow him.  They didn’t know what was required, they were not told the sacrifice, they were not promised they would one day they could return to their nets.  But they walked away instantly.  
  • What net has the Lord asked you to leave?
• What is your priority, study the following and see the impact of putting Christ and his teachings first.
  • Matthew 10: 32-39
  • Luke 9: 57-62
  • Mark 8: 34-38
• What trials do you face in following Jesus Christ?  How do you overcome them?  What can you do to help others become disciples of Jesus?
• Additional Study:
  • Jeffrey R. Holland, “The Cost - and Blessings - of Discipleship”, April 2014
  • We Are All Enlisted, Hymns No. 250
  • I Will Be Valiant, Children's Songbook No. 162