1 Nephi 3:29 - "And it came to pass as they smote us with a rod, behold, an angel of the Lord came and stood before them, and he spake unto them, saying: Why do ye smite your younger brother with a rod? Know ye not that the Lord hath chosen him to be a ruler over you, and this because of your iniquities? Behold ye shall go up to Jerusalem again, and the Lord will deliver Laban into your hands."
Elder Lynn G. Robbins - "We may wonder—if both Nephi and Moses were on the Lord’s errand, why didn’t the Lord intervene and help them achieve success on their first try? Why did He allow them—and why does He allow us—to flounder and fail in our attempts to succeed? Among many important answers to that question, here are a few: First, the Lord knows that 'these things shall give [us] experience, and shall be for [our] good' (Doctrine and Covenants 122:7). Second, to allow us to 'taste the bitter, that [we] may know to prize the good' (Moses 6:55). Third, to prove that 'the battle is the Lord’s,' (1 Samuel 17:47) and it is only by His grace that we can accomplish His work and become like Him. Fourth, to help us develop and hone scores of Christlike attributes that cannot be refined except through opposition and 'in the furnace of affliction' (Isaiah 48:10). So, amid a life full of stumbling blocks and imperfection, we all are grateful for second chances."
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