"their doings shall be as a stumbling block"

Mosiah 7:29 For behold, the Lord hath said: I will not succor my people in the day of their transgression; but I will hedge up their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a stumbling block before them.

Very interesting.  Our actions can cause us to stumble.  When we do things that are not right, it creates problems for us.  Of course it does.

One way of looking at wickedness is to call it chaos and to call righteousness order or peace.  Chaos never leads to order or peace.  Imagine I have a container full of black marbles on the top and white marbles on the bottom.  It is organized and peaceful.   If I shake it the marbles will blend and be all mixed up, in chaos.  If I keep shaking this container for a thousand years, will the marbles ever go back to their sorted state?  No.  Never. The only way to sort the marbles again is to put some focused intelligence into sorting, take them by hand and sort them again.

So  if we are wicked, or causing chaos in our lives, it will cause our lives to be disorganized and we will stumble.    Our actions affect who we are.  Our actions do not define who we are, but they affect it.  Who we are is our being, our personality, our essence.  This is the part of us that will stumble.  The becoming, the being part of us will stumble because of our actions.  If our actions were who we were then the statement that  our doings shall be a stumbling block would not make sense.  It would make sense to say, that person is stumbling, you can see it by their actions.  But no, the part of us that stumbles is our soul.  Our actions are things that happen in time.  We exist continually, through time.