Tuesday, October 13, 2009

2 NEPHI 32

Nephi told us that we can "speak with the tongue of angels." We brainstormed to come up with how angels might speak: don't say mean things, sing praises to God, soft spoken, lovingly, scripturally, speak of Christ, boomingly, manly, Godlike, eloquently, they have their own language, don't tell lies and don't swear. That is how we envision angels speaking. But the scriptures tell us something we didn't think of. In verses 2 and 3 we read that the angles speak the words of Christ with the power of the Holy Ghost. Then Nephi tells us that we need to "feast upon the words of Christ". So to speak the words of Christ we need to first feast upon His words.
So we nibbled on a granola bar and we tasted a granola bar. They were different than feasting. To feast on the words we need to study, search and ponder. It doesn't matter how many verses you read or how long you read or how fast you read. We need to use the scriptures as we would dine on Thanksgiving. Longingly, hungrily, etc.
Our next point was from verses 8-9. Dinner conversation: Why does Satan want to destroy our communication with God?

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