The testimony of Jesus Christ that Nephi shares and the testimony that he borrows from Isaiah is some of the most delightful in scripture.
Speaking of the World’s relationship to Christ, Nephi wrote “and the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yeah, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men (1 Nephi 19:9).”
To know a person such as Christ would be enough to change for the better. Yet because of the wickedness of the world, they do “set at naught and trample under their feet. Yea, even the very God of Israel do men trample under their feet but I would speak in other words—they set him at naught, and hearken not to the voice of his counsels (1 Nephi 19:7).”
It is a deplorable show of ingratitude to know what Christ did for us and to “turn aside our hearts against the Holy One of Israel (1 Nephi 19:15).”
“Love is the key, when I am not grateful I cannot feel this love, and when I am grateful for the Lord and what he gives me, it opens up a door… then all of a sudden a stream of answers come to me, this is how he speaks to me. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf (How I #HearHim).