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

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Acts 1

Luke records the process that the early apostles used to select a new apostle to provide a full quorum of twelve apostles with the falling away of Judas Iscariot. Peter taking the lead, obvious as the leader or president of the twelve taught -

"...and his bishoprick let another take..." (New Testament | Acts 1:20)

...or his calling or position, let another fill. And obviously after some discussion two were nominated for -

"...they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias." (New Testament | Acts 1:23)

And with a desire that the Lord's will be manifest -

"...they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship..." (New Testament | Acts 1:24 - 25)

And Luke then records (I wonder if he was actually present) -

"...they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles." (New Testament | Acts 1:26)

At first, one might think that they drew straws so to speak or even cast their ballot. But I have wondered if things may have not been like that at all. In referencing the dictionary, one of the definitions for "lot" is -

"...the resulting choice" even -

"...something that comes to one upon whom a lot has fallen..." (Merriam-Webster)

It would seem more logical to me that after much prayer, Peter stood with and inspired choice that the lot was to befall Mathias. In turn, being inspired, the twelve also cast their unanimous sustaining vote or choice that this lot should also fall on Mathias. And in this manner was Matthais called and numbered amoung the eleven. This would seem to be the order that Luke was recording.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

John 21

After learning of the things that were yet to befall him, Peter then turns and asks the Savior concerning John -

"...Lord, and what shall this man do?" (New Testament | John 21:21)

Then of John, the Savior said -

"...If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" (New Testament | John 21:22)

It was during His ministry the Savior commented of His disciples -

"...There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." (New Testament | Matthew 16:28)

It was of John that the Savior testified -

"...He shall not die..." (New Testament | John 21:23)

In His visit to the Americas, the Savior also said to three of His disciples -

"...I know your thoughts, and ye have desired the thing which John, my beloved, who was with me in my ministry, before that I was lifted up by the Jews, desired of me.
7 Therefore, more blessed are ye, for ye shall never taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come in my glory with the powers of heaven.
8 And ye shall never endure the pains of death; but when I shall come in my glory ye shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality; and then shall ye be blessed in the kingdom of my Father." (Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 28:6 - 8)

After much prayerful inquiry, Mormon later related -

"...since I wrote, I have inquired of the Lord, and he hath made it manifest unto me that there must needs be a change wrought upon their bodies, or else it needs be that they must taste of death;
38 Therefore, that they might not taste of death there was a change wrought upon their bodies, that they might not suffer pain nor sorrow save it were for the sins of the world.
39 Now this change was not equal to that which shall take place at the last day; but there was a change wrought upon them, insomuch that Satan could have no power over them, that he could not tempt them; and they were sanctified in the flesh, that they were holy, and that the powers of the earth could not hold them.
40 And in this state they were to remain until the judgment day of Christ; and at that day they were to receive a greater change, and to be received into the kingdom of the Father to go no more out, but to dwell with God eternally in the heavens." (Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 28:37 - 40)

With the words of Mormon, be have better come to understand the writings of John.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

John 20

Just a couple of thoughts this morning.

The testimony of the apostles was that Jesus had risen from the dead. John witnessed his death. Even such that he personally witnessed -

"...one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water." (New Testament | John 19:34)

But even then, when some may have suggested that somehow the Savior did not acturally die, the Savior even told Thomas -

"Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." (New Testament | John 20:27)

The instruction to "thrust it into my side" would suggest to me that no one could possibly be a mortal and have that take place. There is no question in my mind at that time, the Savior was a resurrected being with a body of flesh and bones.

The second thought that came to my mind was that the Savior always seemed to emphasize that His relationship with the Father was different that all other men being the literal Son of God. He was always referring to His Father as My Father. If find it interesting that even in the resurrection, He seems again to differentiate this relationship as He tells Mary Magdalene -

"...I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (New Testament | John 20:17)

He does not even suggest our Father or our God.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

John 19

The Savior taught His disciples -

"Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." (New Testament | John 10:17 - 18)

In a similar way, He says the same to Pilate -

"...Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above..." (New Testament | John 19:11)

Or in other words, as God would allow. This power to lay down His life becomes even more apparent at Calvary upon, in all clearness of mind, commanded John to care for His mother, -

"...Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth." (New Testament | John 19:28 - 29)

...knowing also that he must fulfill the prophecy of the David wherein -

"Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." (Old Testament | Psalms 69:20 - 21)

Knowing this, the Savior having done all as commanded and prophecied -

"...said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." (New Testament | John 19:30)

The Savior was not like the other men crucified with Him where there legs had to be broken to die, the Savior had power to lay down His life which He did after all was done.

Monday, May 23, 2011

John 18

Pontius Pilate asked a question that has been on the minds of all great thinkers -

"...What is truth?..." (New Testament | John 18:38)

Most scholars would focus that a truth is a fixed principle, doctrine, or law. But modern day revelation provides the definition -

"...truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come..." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 93:24)

It seems truth is more than a fixed principle, doctrine, or law that is true, but something greater. Knowledge of things as they actually are and will be. Truth then is the knowledge of God and it is the priesthood of God that -

"...holdeth the key of the mysteries of the kingdom, even the key of the knowledge of God." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 84:19)

...which is the key to truth.

Friday, May 20, 2011

John 17

Yesterday was my 34 year anniverary of my wedding day. On my wedding day, I thought I knew my wife. I had learned a great deal about her and her family. But now after these many years, I recognize now that I am just beginning to really know her.

I now think that really coming to know someone requires more than knowing of, bu requires one to live with, become like, and do things with - "live in one shoes". In other words, become more like them.

In what some have come to define as the Savior's great intercessory prayer, He said -

"...this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (New Testament | John 17:3)

One of God's name is the "Eternal Father" -

"...for Endless is my name." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 19:10)

Therefore God's life is eternal life or life eternal. As we take on the name of Christ and live our lives as He lives His, we begin to take on "life eternal" and come to know Him. It is not enough just to come to know about Him, His life, and commandments. We must become like Him to know Him. Elder Bruce R. McConkie commented -

"It is one thing to know about God and another to know him. We know about him when we learn that he is a personal being in whose image man is created; when we learn that the Son is in the express image of his Father's person; when we learn that both the Father and the Son possess certain specified attributes and powers. But we know them, in the sense of gaining eternal life, when we enjoy and experience the same things they do. To know God is to think what he thinks, to feel what he feels, to have the power he possesses, to comprehend the truths he understands, and to do what he does. Those who know God become like him, and have his kind of life, which is eternal life." (DNTC 1:762.)

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

John 16

Speaking of the people of His day, the Savior warned His disciples -

"They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." (New Testament | John 16:2)

I find it interesting that the religious leaders of the Savior's day would persecute His disciples, ironically thinking that they are serving God by doing so. I'm sure there are religious leaders of our day that ironically persecute the saints on the same premises. That is thinking they are doing service to God. The Savior provided this explanation why -

"...these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me." (New Testament | John 16:3)

I am personally convinced the reason is more an issue of power, pride, and position than anything else. So how are the saints to come to know the Father and the Son, or in other words, come to know the truth of whom they worship. The Savior knew that He would not always be with them so He provided "another Comforter" for -

"...when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." (New Testament | John 16:13)

To be one the "shall hear" requires a great deal of humility and desire to know the truth. Moroni gave this inspired promise if one really wants to know the truth of all things -

"...I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things." (Book of Mormon | Moroni 10:3 - 5)

Those that follow this counsel are those that "shall hear". By failing to do so, one might find himself amongst those that -

"...will think that he doeth God service." (New Testament | John 16:2)

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

John 15

In one of the greater illustrations given by the Savior in comparing himself to the "true vine" and His Father as the husbandman, the Savior compares -

"Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." (New Testament | John 15:2)

Again, the Lord makes it clear that "doing" is essential in receiving His greatest gift of eternal life or God's life as He again teaches -

"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." (New Testament | John 15:10)

Using the illustration again, the Savior describes the nature of the branches and their reliance upon Him -

"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (New Testament | John 15:5)

These verses teach than even though we are promised all that the Father has, it also teaches the order of things that, in my mind, throughout eternity, without the "Vine", we can do nothing. That is why Jacob declared -

"Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement..." (Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:7)

Monday, May 16, 2011

John 14

At the very hour in which the Savior was about to take upon him the sins and afflictions of all men -

"Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit..." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 19:18)

He warns His disciples -

"Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." (New Testament | John 14:30)

Or as the Prophet Joseph Smith translated -

"Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the prince of darkness, who is of this world, cometh, but hath no power over me, but he hath power over you." (JST)

Thus he teaches them -

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (New Testament | John 14:27)

And how would He do this?

"I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." (New Testament | John 14:16 - 17)

For -

"...the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (New Testament | John 14:26)

This so called Gift of the Holy Ghost, is only available to -

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father..." (New Testament | John 14:21)

Friday, May 13, 2011

John 13

In His final hours, the Savior taught His disciples -

"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." (New Testament | John 13:34)

It is obvious that this is not the first time that the children of Abraham had been commanded to love one another. Elder Bruce R. McConkie provided this explanation -

"Yes, and an old commandment too; a commandment both old and new, a commandment that commences now and yet is everlasting; a commandment that is new each time it is revealed, but is old because it has always been in force. John, who here preserves this saying of our Savior, amplified and explained it in his own writings. Speaking of the "love of God," he said: "Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment, which ye had from the beginning." And then speaking also of the same thing he says: "Again, a new commandment I write unto you." (1 John 2:1-8.)

This gospel manner of naming the same thing as being both new and old is nowhere better illustrated than in the designation, "the new and everlasting covenant." The gospel is the everlasting covenant, the covenant of salvation which God always has and always will make with men, but it is a new covenant each time it is revealed. The gospel we have today is new to the world for this era; it is old because it was had anciently; it is everlasting because it is the same from age to age and from eternity to eternity." (DNTC 1:726.)

But with this new commandment, in a sense, a litmus test is given -

"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." (New Testament | John 13:35)

It becomes clear that we are only disciples of Jesus Christ if we love and have compassion for each other.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

John 11

It seemed the raising of Lazarus from the dead was the event that took the Sanhedrin over the top to kill the Savior. But what simple words that touched me was when His disciples warned Him that the last time He was in Judea, the Jews sought to stone Him. To their concern -

"Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him." (New Testament | John 11:9 - 10)

I'm sure many would think that the Savior was in His eleventh hour and still had word to do. But what struck me was the following teachings that if a man walk in light, he does not stumble. When he walks in darkness, he will stumble. The Savior had previously taught -

"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (New Testament | Matthew 6:22 - 23)

In modern day, the Lord revealed -

"...if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:67)

Light and darkness cannot co-exist. The promise is if we choose light, we will not stumble because we see or comprehend all things. In other words -
"...that which doth not edify is not of God, and is darkness.
24 That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day.
25 And again, verily I say unto you, and I say it that you may know the truth, that you may chase darkness from among you..." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 50:23 - 25)

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

John 10

The Jews were very familiar with the analogy of the sheep and the shepherd in that it has been used multiple times throughout the Old Testament. I believe the had high regard for the shepherd in their culture. The Jews knew that the prophecies suggested that the Messiah would be the great shepherd. It is with that understanding that the Savior declared -

"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." (New Testament | John 10:11)

But with that testimony, the Savior also teaches the principles of a good shepherd -

"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." (New Testament | John 10:14)

This principle of being a good shepherd where Peter was commanded -

"...Feed my sheep." (New Testament | John 21:16)

Peter in turn said to his priesthood leaders -

"Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." (New Testament | 1 Peter 5:2 - 3)

What great counsel given by the Savior and by his authorized servants.

Monday, May 09, 2011

John 9

I remember very clearly a comment made by a member of the stake presidency as I served on the stake high council. He suggested that a window of opportunity had now opened and the day would come when that window would close. When the window closed, our opportunity to do any more would also close. Today was the day that we must do all we can before the window of opportunity would not available anymore.

The Savior seemed to be more than aware of this doctrine, teaching -

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." (New Testament | John 9:4)

Alma taught much the same concept -

"For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors." (Book of Mormon | Alma 34:32)

"...I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed." (Book of Mormon | Alma 34:33)

In both these sayings, it is referring to life itself. But I believe it also applies to every window of opportunity or season of service fro the day will come when "can be no labor performed".

Friday, May 06, 2011

John 8

Several Old Testament prophets asked the people -

"...for why will ye die..." (Old Testament | Ezekiel 33:11)

As the Savior said to the Pharisees in the temple -

"...I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come." (New Testament | John 8:21)

The death spoken of by the the Savior and the prophets was being seperated from the presence of God for -

"...ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." (New Testament | John 8:24)

The Savior couldn't have made it more clear that he will not "save us in our sins", only "from our sins" if we repent.

Thursday, May 05, 2011

John 7

As I read the opposition of Jewish leaders to the doctrine and testimony of the Savior, I couldn't help but sense the same relevance to the restoration of the gospel in our day. The Savior counseled the Jewish leaders in His day -

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." (New Testament | John 7:24)

Another interpretation would be -

"Judge not according to your traditions, but judge righteous judgment. (JST)

The Jews were so steeped in interpretations of the law of Moses that they couldn't even make rational or "common sense" judgment. Maybe many of the Christians of our day do the same thing. In response the Savior taught -

"...My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." (New Testament | John 7:16 - 17)

Suggesting -

"He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him." (New Testament | John 7:18)

I feel the Prophet Joseph Smith was one that only sought the glory of Him who sent him. The testimony is -

"...If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (New Testament | John 7:37 - 38)

the flow of living water, as suggested in the following verse, is the Holy Ghost. The promise is in our day that -

"...when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how amerciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and bponder it in your chearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would aask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not btrue; and if ye shall ask with a csincere heart, with dreal intent, having efaith in Christ, he will fmanifest the gtruth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may aknow the btruth of all things." (Book of Mormon | Moroni 10:3 - 5)

We do not have to rely upon judging according to appearance or tradition.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

John 6

In the Savior's ministry, there arrived a point where there was a need to begin to seperate the wheat from the tares, or in other words, those that followed the Savior because of His miracles and those that believed His doctrine. For there were those that upon witnessing, or maybe you could say even entertained by his miracles -

"...perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king..." (New Testament | John 6:15)

Their vision was only of deliverence from the Roman control of their day. It was after this following that the Savior declared -

"...I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." (New Testament | John 6:35)

"For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." (New Testament | John 6:33)

And then using an analogy that this people clearly understood taught -

"This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." (New Testament | John 6:50 - 51)

"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." (New Testament | John 6:53 - 55)

Elder Bruce R. McConkie commented -

"I am the bread of everlasting life, even that spiritual bread of which men must eat to gain everlasting life. This spiritual bread is that which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die spiritually, which spiritual death is to be cast out of the presence of the Lord and to die as pertaining to things of righteousness. True, your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, but they are dead, for this manna satisfied their temporal hunger only; it was not that spiritual bread of which men may eat and gain spiritual or eternal life. But I am the living bread, even the Son of God who came down from the Father in heaven. If any man shall eat of this spiritual bread, he shall live forever in that, being born again, he shall be spiritually alive in this world and inherit eternal life, which is spiritual life in the presence of the Father, in the world to come. And to eat the living bread is to accept me as the Son of God and to obey my commandments. And this living bread, which I shall give unto all who believe in me and obey my law, is my own flesh, in that it shall be because of my atoning sacrifice and temporal death that men shall have power to eat of the living bread and gain eternal life. Therefore say I unto you, I will give my flesh for the life of the world." (DNTC 1:356-57.)

Such doctrine reminds me of the fruit or meat of the Tree of Life -

"...Come unto me and ye shall partake of the fruit of the tree of life; yea, ye shall eat and drink of the bread and the waters of life freely;"
(Book of Mormon | Alma 5:34)

With this doctrine -

"...many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him." (New Testament | John 6:66)

This same symbolism was later introduced as an ordinance at that last supper. I believe this doctrine is critical in our worship in our day, that of humbly, worthily, and in repententace weekly partaking of the sacrament or the flesh and blood of the Savior.

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

John 5

It seems it was at the temple where the Savior provides His greatest testimony of His divinity and mission to the unbelieving Jewish leaders. After so testifying, the Savior said -

"If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true." (New Testament | John 5:31)

I don't believe He is saying that His witness is not true, but suggesting according the Jewish tradition that a single testimony is not sufficient to substantiate a truth. The Prophet Joseph Smith wrote that He said -

"Therefore if I bear witness of myself, yet my witness is true. (JST)

But nonetheless, the Savior continues -

"There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true." (New Testament | John 5:32)

This witnessed, John would later record as the Comforter or the Holy Ghost. And even with this spiritaul witness -

"Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth." (New Testament | John 5:33)

Not only individuals such as John but also -

"...I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me..." (New Testament | John 5:36)

There is also the scriptures and the prophets, for -

"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." (New Testament | John 5:39)

There are plenty of witnessed or testimonies of the divinity of the Savior. It is our obligation to hear.

Monday, May 02, 2011

John 4

Probably one of the greatest mistranslations that have confused gospel readers over the years were the words -

"God is a Spirit..." (New Testament | John 4:24)

Though in a real sense, God is a spirit personage with a body of flesh and bones, I don't believe that that is really what the Savior said. As you read the words of the Savior to the Samaritan woman, He explained -

"...the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him." (New Testament | John 4:23)

The statement makes more sense as the Prophet Joseph translated the words the Savior really followed with -

"For unto such hath God promised his Spirit. And they who worship him, must worship in spirit and in truth." (JST)

It is through the gift of His Spirit wherein we are able to commune with the infinites. David O. Mckay defined spirituality as -

"...consciousness of victory over self and communion with the infinite." President David O. McKay