After Alma teaches about prayer and repentance he then tells the Zoramites and ME that if I forget to have charity than my prayer for forgiveness is in vain and I am nothing more than a hypocrite. I must remember to be charitable and bring fruit unto repentance. I looked up the scriptures in the foot notes in an earlier chapter in Alma and in Mathew and Luke all describing “fruit meet for repentance”. The word “meet” meaning worthy or appropriate. As I pondered these things, I believe what Alma is trying to teach is that in order for repentance to be complete and real there must be a change of heart. Our changed hearts will bring us to charitable actions. Proof, in a way, that we are truly repentant. If our desires and actions remain the same, than our repentance really is in vain, and for nothing. As we repent and become more like Christ, charitable acts will become a part of us and we won’t have to think about doing them just as they who Christ is. What we love most about Christ is His charity, the way he lived His life but more importantly His ultimate act of charity-- as He suffered, died and rose again to provide the way back to the Father.
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