In Omni verse 27, a large group of people who evidently missed the land of Nephi where Nephi’s temple is, left Zarahemla and went back to the land of Nephi and they were never heard from again. King Mosiah agrees to let Ammon lead 16 people back to Nephi to see what happened to them. They find them and their appointed king Zeniff. After learning that Ammon and his men are not Lamanite spies, Zeniff is hopeful that Ammon will be able to lead his people in an escape from the Lamanites back to Zarahemla and he calls the people together to speak to them.
Getting the people to flee will be difficult because of their great fear of the Lamanites. Zeniff recounts how the Lamanites have killed Abinadi and how they will lose the help of the Lord because they will dwindle in unbelief. Then he makes a promise, “If ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.”
This promise is based on a principle that can bless our lives. Whenever our lives are governed by fear, we are in bondage because fear stops us from acting, and our inaction keeps us from enjoying the real desires of our hearts. If we move forward trusting the Lord, we can move through the fear and find the blessings we seek. I know for a fact that the things we fear are never a reality and do not come to pass. Satan uses fear to keep us from enjoying the important things of life, what we would most want and what the Lord would also want for us. And the fear I believe to be the most common and universal is the fear to love and be loved. Whether it is the fear to love another person or to love the Lord or both, that fear keeps us from experiencing the greatest thing life has to offer us and it is what the Lord wants us to experience more than anything else in this life.
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