Directed by his thoughts which were guided by the Holy Spirit within him, Alma took a retrospect of his past life, and gloried in the God of all goodness Whom he served, and to Whom he offered praise and thanksgiving. Alma's joy was unbounded as he prayerfully contemplated the long-suffering of the Lord and His mercy.
Had not the Lord God, the Mighty Father of all men, Alma asked himself, delivered his earthly fathers from the sore bondage of the Lamanites in the Land of Nephi; also the righteous of his brethren from the wicked grasp of King Noah? Again Alma meditated on the power and the purposes of the Lord God, and saw in them the wisdom of a higher Judge than he to bring about the eternal Plan of Salvation. For, he knew it was by the grace of God alone that through his fathers' delivery from the bitter gall of afflication that His Church, "Yea," the Church of "the Lord God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob," was established by his intrepid father.
Going back still further in the recesses of his mind, Alma remembered the Children of Israel, that they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage by the power of that same God Who had only recently severed the bands of Lamanitish serfdom that had held his fathers in its unyielding malignity. Alma's fathers, both far and near, had experienced the working of God's power, His glory and dominion, in their preservation. Now, in humility, Alma reasoned that the same God Who had worked such marvelous works among his fathers had also called him "to preach the word unto this people, and hath given me much success, in the which my joy is full." Alma's success in bringing souls to Christ reminds one that to do so is the greatest work of the angels in Heaven, or of men on Earth. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a similar duty as did Alma. "The Lord has called us to His service, and has found us worthy to be His witness to the peoples of the Earth. May we receive grace to fulfill this mission with zeal tempered with wisdom and guided by a regard for other men's faith. May our lives prove the strength of our belief in the things we proclaim. May our bearing toward our neighbors, our constancy in defeat or triumph, our faithfulness in every sphere of duty, our compassion for the suffering, our patience under trial, show that He Whose laws we obey is the God of all goodness and the loving Father of all men; that to serve Him is our greatest freedom, and to worship Him the soul's purest happiness."