Searching the Scriptures

"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls."

-Matthew 11:29

I haven't always loved or even understood the scriptures. I do know that the older I get the more I have grown to love learning about the gospel. For many years I used to live my life as if I could "work" my way to perfection or perhaps I could "earn" the right to cross the pearly gates. Since then my testimony of Jesus Christ has grown. No matter how perfectly I live my life I will still fall short of being perfect enough to reach exaltation. It is literally not possible without the atonement of Jesus Christ. 

Knowing this has changed my ability to understand the scriptures. I now realize the beautiful simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I all comes down to following Christ. Learn of him, study about his life and his teachings, and then partake in his atonement daily. Where do you learn all of this? It is all there in the scriptures. If you want to understand any of the questions that life will give you, the answer is in the scriptures. What a blessing to us that God has given us his guidebook. What a blessing to read and watch the love that God has for his children, unfold as those words come off the pages. What a beautiful blessing!

I am grateful for the Word of God; His Holy Scriptures! 

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