Confidence in the Lord

I didn't want to start over from the beginning of the Book of Mormon right now so I just got out a CD from the middle the other day and started listening to it. I ended up in Alma listening to the story of Ammon and Lamoni. After Lamoni's conversion, Ammon told Lamoni that he had to go to the land of Middoni to rescue his brethren who were in prison. When Lamoni asked Ammon how he know his brethren were in prison, Ammon responded, "No one hath told me, save it be God." I thought about how spiritually confident Ammon was to recognize the voice of the Spirit and to act on it without questioning. In my own mind, I sometimes question or doubt when I receive an answer, trying to think of why it is not reasonable or wondering if it is just something I have created in my mind. I think that Ammon must have had much practice in both hearing the voice of the Spirit and in acting upon it in order to have developed the faith and confidence to know when he was being directed by God and to be able to separate those promptings from his own thoughts and fears and doubts.