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

Friday, January 13, 2017

D&C 76

As the Prophet Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were engaged in the translation of the Bible, the Prophet comments -

"Now this caused us to marvel, for it was given unto us of the Spirit.
19 And while we meditated upon these things, the Lord touched the eyes of our understandings and they were opened..."  (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 76:18 - 19)

For -

"By the power of the Spirit our eyes were opened and our understandings were enlightened, so as to see and understand the things of God—"  (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 76:12)

This falls much in line with a scripture related to the 2017 Youth Theme -

"But ye are commanded in all things to ask of God, who giveth liberally; and that which the Spirit testifies unto you even so I would that ye should do in all holiness of heart, walking uprightly before me, considering the end of your salvation, doing all things with prayer and thanksgiving, that ye may not be seduced by evil spirits, or doctrines of devils, or the commandments of men; for some are of men, and others of devils."  (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 46:7)