I would encourage all of us to continue to read and study the
scriptures, that we might understand them and apply in
our lives the lessons we find there.
I paraphrase the poet James Phinney Baxter:
Who learns and learns but never knows
Is like the one who plows and plows but never sows.
Spending time each day in scripture study will, without
doubt, strengthen our foundations of faith and our
testimonies of truth.
Recall with me the joy Alma experienced as he was
journeying from the land of Gideon southward to the land
of Manti and met the sons of Mosiah.
Alma had not seen them for some time, and he was
overjoyed to discover that they were "still his brethren
in the Lord; yea, and
they had waxed strong in the knowledge of the truth; for
they were men of a sound understanding and they had
searched the scriptures diligently, that they might
know the word of God."
May we also know the word of God and conduct our lives
accordingly.