It always amazes me to think
of some of the challenges and trials that our forefathers have endured just so
that I can read the words written in these books. To think of the experiences that Nephi went
through in retrieving the Brass Plates, or the time that Mormon took in abridging
the plates, or the trials that Joseph Smith endured in translating those works,
I start to think that I show so little gratitude for the scriptures that sit on
my night stand. “Sometimes it seems we
take the scriptures too much for granted because we do not fully appreciate how
rare a thing it is to possess them, and how blessed we are because we do have
them. We seem to have settled so comfortably into our experiences in this world
and become so accustomed to hearing the gospel taught among us that it is hard
for us to imagine it could ever have been otherwise. . . (Spencer
W. Kimball).”
Perhaps one way we can show
gratitude for the inspired works that we are able to learn and grow from, is to
truly feast upon the words of
Christ. M. Russell Ballard showed
understanding for our busy schedules, but then said this: “I plead with you to
make time for immersing yourselves in the scriptures… It will give increased
success in your daily activities. It will bring increased alertness to your
minds. It will give you comfort and rock-steady assurance when the storms of
life descend upon you.” With those blessings available to us, it seems to me
that we ought to make time for studying the words of the Lord, to truly feast
upon those words that have been through so much in history to end up on those
pages today.
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