Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Monday, December 18, 2006

Mathew 13:44-46

As the Savior began to use parables in his teaching, he tauht -

"...the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field." (New Testament Matthew 13:44)

He also taught -

...the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." (New Testament Matthew 13:45 - 46)

In both parables, the message is conveyed that when that of great value is found, a wise man will sacrifice all that is necessary to possess it. The Savior testifies herein to all men that the kingdom of heaven is of such value to we should sacrifice all, pay whatever to costs to obtain it. As he taught in parables -

"...the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" (New Testament Matthew 13:10)

"...Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." (New Testament Matthew 13:11 - 13)

Alma taught the Zoramites -

"...concerning faith—that it was not a perfect knowledge—...Ye cannot know of their surety at first, unto perfection, any more than faith is a perfect knowledge.
27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words." (Book of Mormon Alma 32:26 - 27)

To those who would "hear" or desire to believe and would give a place for a portion of his words by exercising faith, the Savior promised -

"...blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear." (New Testament Matthew 13:16)

Saying to them -

"Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord." (New Testament Matthew 13:51)

I believe the kingdom of heaven is worth any price to obtain.