Listen to the Spirit

Listen to the Spirit and let it guide your study.

This skill will bring balance, temperance and focus to Time, Effort and Patience. The scriptures are so full of gospel principles, doctrines, parallels and symbolism on many different levels that one could spend years in a single book in the Bible or the Book of Mormon searching for these rays of truth. The still, small voice of the Spirit can be a guide to finding what the Lord wants revealed right now and can lead to questions being answered and guidance being given.

I try to listen to that quiet inner voice as I read and study. Sometimes it tells me that there is something below the surface that I need to understand. Other times it says there is even more that I can receive if I keep digging. Eventually, I receive that feeling of satisfaction—not that I have received everything possible, but that I have received what I need for now. Although, there are times when I feel that I am not quite ready to receive the greater portion.