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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, I want to begin with a little scenario. Picture in your mind the following. There's a family |
0:07.8 | sitting together in their living room. Scriptures open on their laps, and they're reading through |
0:14.2 | a chapter of the book Mormon. As they're going, dad is dutifully reading some verses out loud. |
0:23.6 | Mom is looking across the room and noticing a troubled look on her daughter's face, and she |
0:32.1 | picks up on that expression and she wonders how she could possibly help this daughter, who she knows is struggling with certain things. |
0:40.1 | One of the sons is curled up in a ball, covered with a blanket, with his scriptures propped up on his knees, |
0:49.2 | and his eyes are slowly closing. He's clearly not engaged in what's going on. And other family members |
0:57.0 | are sitting there with their, their eyes are open, their scriptures are in front of them, |
1:03.0 | dad's reading, and their eyes may actually be covering the page, but they have no idea what's being read. Their mind is |
1:13.5 | completely somewhere else. Now, that's the scenario. How reasonable is that? Or how much |
1:22.1 | of a fairy tale is that? I've mentioned this before. This phenomenon that occurs when we sometimes get into our scripture |
1:30.0 | study, we treat it as if it's something we have to do in order to be a good member of |
1:37.6 | the church. We need to do our daily personal and family scripture study. So check, |
1:42.4 | we did it. So we come into this experience, we read our |
1:45.9 | scriptures, and then we go out of this experience and then go back into real life, right? There's a |
1:51.2 | problem with that. It's treating, it's treating this experience as if it's not part of real life, |
1:58.5 | as if it's just a duty that we have to fulfill in order to feel |
2:03.1 | better about our discipleship or our membership in the church. |
2:07.3 | The reality is that these scriptures are the words of God. |
2:12.7 | So if we can reverse this mentality and instead of seeing our scripture study or our church attendance |
2:20.9 | or our prayers as checklist items, but rather these connecting points with heaven, these opportunities |
2:31.9 | to come unto Christ and to hear his voice speaking to us, it |
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