In family scripture study this morning, I read something I found interesting in Mosiah 4:6.<\/p>\n
At this point of his address, King Benjamin is addressing a people who had just declared their humility to them. He acknowledges their humility, and he goes on to outline requirements for salvation, which I assume us individual salvation, or exaltation.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, he lists faith and obedience to the commandments as requirements. <\/p>\n
What I found interesting, however, were God’s characteristics of which we needed to gain a knowledge: his goodness, his matchless power, his wisdom, his patience, and his long suffering.<\/p>\n
Not only do I find the qualities themselves interesting, I found interesting the fact we need to gain a knowledge of them.<\/p>\n
It seems to me that coming to know these things implies we are familiar with them; we have seen them manifested in our lives. This of course requires effort on our part. <\/p>\n
Sure God may exhibit patience or wisdom toward us without our doing anything, but his exhibiting them is not the same thing as our experiencing them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"