Principle: Jesus Christ traded all to come to earth
Read: 1 Nephi 17:1 - 17:16
The Lord directly answers a lot of Nephi's prayers in building the ship. What did Nephi teach about receiving blessings from the God?
Flip back a few chapters and read 1 Nephi 11:13–23. With these verses fresh in your mind review the following statements and consider the condescension of God.
Tad R. Callister: “God the Son traded his heavenly home with all its celestial adornments for a mortal abode with all its primitive trappings. He, ‘the King of heaven’ (Alma 5:50), ‘the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth’ (Mosiah 3:5), left a throne to inherit a manger. He exchanged the dominion of a god for the dependence of a babe. … It was a trade of unparalleled dimension. … The great Jehovah, creator of worlds without number, infinite in virtue and power, made his entry into this world in swaddling clothes and a manger” (The Infinite Atonement [2000], 64).
Bruce R. McConkie: “The condescension of God (meaning the Father) consists in the fact that though he is an exalted, perfected, glorified Personage, he became the personal and literal Father of a mortal Offspring born of mortal woman” (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. [1966], 155).
How would you answer the angel in 1 Nephi 11: 16 when asked "Knowest thou the condescension of God?" How is the birth of Jesus Christ part of the condescension of God?