Our lesson this week was from our Ezra Taft Benson manual, Flooding the Earth and Our Lives with the Book of Mormon, Chp. 10. Many of us remember Pres. Benson and his challenge to all of us to read the Book of Mormon every day of our lives. He reminds us that the Book of Mormon was written for us, for our day. Each of the major writers of the Book of Mormon testified that he wrote for future generations...If they saw our day and chose those things which would be of greatest worth to us, is not that how we should study the Book of Mormon? We should constanty ask ourselves, "Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?"
Pres. Benson teaches us that there is something more in the Book of Mormon than we think there is. "There is a power in the book which will begin to flow into your lives the moment you begin a serious study of the book. You will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoud deception. You will find the power to stay on the strait and narrow path."
Our teacher reminded us of Sis. Lawrence who taught in the recent Stake Conference that feasting upon the scriptures is like preparing a feast for our family. It takes effort, there is a variety of things to eat, we need the correct tools to eat our meal and there is always dessert that seems to stay with us. Feasting upon the scriptures is the same approach. It takes effort to prepare to study, there should be a variety of things learn as we study, and we need the correct tools, a paper and pen, as we read and study. Finally, our dessert is what stays with us, the things we learn as we study and feast upon the word.
Pres. Benson tells about the visions he had concerning the Book of Mormon: "My beloved brothers and sisters, we hardly fathom the power of the Book of Mormon, nor the divine role it must play, nor the extent to which it must be moved...I challenge all of us to prayerfully consider the steps that we can personally take to bring this new witness for Christ more fully into our own lives and into a world that so desperately needs it. I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages. I have a vision of ome teachers and visiting teachers, ward and branch officers, and stake and mission leaders counseling our people out of the most correct of any book on earth - the Book of Mormon. I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. I have a vision of thousands of missionaries going into the mission field with hundreds of passages memorized from the Book of Mormon so that they might feed the nees of a spiritually famished world. I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the preceps of the Book of Mormon. Indeed, I have a vision of flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon."
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