Matthew 6-10

Name: Erin Christina Elliott Today’s Date: 4/27/10


Course: New Testament

Class Hour: MWF 12:45-1:45


Reading Block: Matt. 6-10


Doctrines and Principles:

• Lay not upon the treasures of Earth but of the treasures of Heaven (Matthew 6:19-21)

• Give alms and pray in secret, not in front of people as the hypocrites do (Matthew 6:4-5)

• Judge not that ye be not judged (Matthew 7:1)



Thoughts, Impressions, Ideas for Application:

• I am weird in ways that I read my scriptures. Sometimes when I read I find hymns in the scriptures and I mark them and I think about why this is in the scriptures and is a hymn. Master, the Tempest is Raging is one of my favorites. Our lives are like the sea that they are sailing on and there is nothing that Christ cannot help us with. As long as we have the faith that Christ is there and that he can help the crazy winds and waves that our lives are sailing on then we will be helped and we will find the peace and the stillness.

• In my P Blessing I am told that people will be able to look at me and know that I am different, that I have the spirit. As Latter-day Saints we are different and we do have a light in our eyes that people will recognize and be drawn to. It is said that the eyes are the gate way to the heart. I know that I have always striven to make sure that there is a light in my eyes and that I am not filled with darkness. That line in my blessing relates to the scriptures in Matthew 6 talking about light in the eyes and it should not only be important to me but to everyone. We need to be careful because people are always watching and know what we do.

• We need to build our lives on the gospel. Christ really is the rock of our salvation that is the rock in the song The Wise Man and the Foolish Man. What I never really noticed until today is the fact that the Foolish man is following Satan’s plan. Satan wants us to build our lives upon the sand so that he can move us and shift us around and in the end destroys us. Follow Christ we will always keep our heads above water, following Satan we will drown.