I’ll Walk With You BOM

Hello! “I’ll Walk with You” is a suggested song to go along with the Book of Mormon lesson “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder” studying 2 Nephi 26–30. This is a vocal solo arrangement of a sweet song from the LDS Children’s Songbook. I have posted this song before to go along with a past lesson; and as I sometimes do with repeats, I re-recorded the vocals to hopefully improve upon the first one. I try to do the best I can. 🙂

This lesson includes chapters that discuss Nephi’s prophesies about Christ coming to minister to his descendants, a future apostasy, the Book of Mormon coming forth; and the future Gentiles and Jews who convert to the gospel of Jesus Christ becoming a covenant people under that same covenant of old, the Abrahamic covenant. There are some beautiful verses about Jesus Christ’s great love for all of God’s children that harmonizes well with this song.

2 Nephi 26:24,33

• 24 He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him. Wherefore, he commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation.
• 33 For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.

In his general conference talk “The Doctrine of Belonging” Elder D. Todd Christofferson said: 

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in its early beginnings was made up largely of white North American and northern European Saints with a relative handful of Native Americans, African Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Now, eight years away from the 200th anniversary of its founding, the Church has greatly increased in numbers and diversity in North America and even more so in the rest of the world.

• As the long-prophesied latter-day gathering of the Lord’s covenant people gains momentum, the Church will truly be composed of members from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.¹ This is not a calculated or forced diversity but a naturally occurring phenomenon that we would expect, recognizing that the gospel net gathers from every nation and every people.

• Having been given this privilege, we cannot permit any racism, tribal prejudice, or other divisions to exist in the latter-day Church of Christ. The Lord commands us, “Be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine.”³ We should be diligent in rooting prejudice and discrimination out of the Church, out of our homes, and, most of all, out of our hearts. As our Church population grows ever more diverse, our welcome must grow ever more spontaneous and warm. We need one another.⁴

Thank you to churchofjesuschrist.org (“Jesus Walks on the Water”), Janeth Perez, Lindsay Nicholas (photo submissions) & Steve Pierce (nature videography/photography) for the beautiful images, media and art that greatly enhance the visual aspects of this song!

The scripture reference for this hymn is:

John 13:15 

15 For I have given you an ^aexample, that ye should do as I have done to you.

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Composers: Words: Carol Lynn Pearson, b. 1939. © 1987 IRI Music: Reid N. Nibley, b. 1923. © 1987 IRI