"And now it came to pass that when Jesus had said these words he said unto them again, after he had expounded all the scriptures unto them which they had received, he said unto them: Behold, other scriptures I would that ye should write, that ye have not."
3 Nephi 23:6
Often we want to have more scripture so that we can know more about the gospel or about God and the universe and how things work, so it is interesting in this verse and the ones that follow that new scripture was produced because Christ asked why they hadn't written something down. In essence, it is our obligation to write the spiritual history of our lives, all of which is fair game when God chooses to create scripture.
Most of scripture is just history from a spiritual perspective, so our own journal writing or notes on how scriptures or conference talks apply to our lives, or recordings of miracles we experience... those are all things that have the potential to be scripture. God didn't have Mormon and Moroni write all the records from scratch. They compiled a record from all of the history that they had. The Bible and the Doctrine and Covenants are also collections of spiritual writings.
Today, let's write down a spiritual event or personal parable from our own lives. Even if what we write never gets collected for an official book of scripture, our writings are things that we can look back on when our faith or hope is low... a memory of God's hand working in our lives, which is something that the Spirit can use to inspire us and get us back on our feet again, so a good thing to prepare ahead of time. :)
3 Nephi 23:6
Often we want to have more scripture so that we can know more about the gospel or about God and the universe and how things work, so it is interesting in this verse and the ones that follow that new scripture was produced because Christ asked why they hadn't written something down. In essence, it is our obligation to write the spiritual history of our lives, all of which is fair game when God chooses to create scripture.
Most of scripture is just history from a spiritual perspective, so our own journal writing or notes on how scriptures or conference talks apply to our lives, or recordings of miracles we experience... those are all things that have the potential to be scripture. God didn't have Mormon and Moroni write all the records from scratch. They compiled a record from all of the history that they had. The Bible and the Doctrine and Covenants are also collections of spiritual writings.
Today, let's write down a spiritual event or personal parable from our own lives. Even if what we write never gets collected for an official book of scripture, our writings are things that we can look back on when our faith or hope is low... a memory of God's hand working in our lives, which is something that the Spirit can use to inspire us and get us back on our feet again, so a good thing to prepare ahead of time. :)
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