http://www.studyyourscriptures.com Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:40:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.studyyourscriptures.com/the-scriptures-spoke-to-me/comment-page-1#comment-131 Glessie Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:41:57 +0000 http://www.studyyourscriptures.com/?page_id=6#comment-131 This past year there has been a lot of trouble in my family and just some issues that have been difficult to deal with. One night that I was studying my scriptures, I was angry at a family member who had been causing many of the issues. I didn't really even want to study the scriptures because I was so irritated at this person. However, I felt that that was the most important thing that I could be doing. Anyway, I was studying scriptures linked together by footnotes in the scriptures. Somehow I ended up in the Old Testament and although the scripture that I was looking for did not have any particular insight, I noticed that there was a marking on one of the following pages. I turned to that page and read the note that I had at some point made in the margin (that I don't remember clearly why I wrote it). It said, "Is it benefiting anyone, you being angry?" I read the scripture that was next to it and it was about Jonah being angry with someone and the Lord rebuking him for it. The message was very clear that just being angry was not doing any good for any one. I knew then how important it was to pray to repent for being angry and pray for things that I could do to improve the relationship and how I could influence this person's choices. This is not the first time that the scriptures have directly applied to me. It's so true, as Elder Hales says, that we talk to Heavenly Father through prayer and He talks to us through the scriptures. We're so blessed to have the scriptures...I know that I definitely need to take more advantage of the instructions the Lord has given us in them. This past year there has been a lot of trouble in my family and just some issues that have been difficult to deal with. One night that I was studying my scriptures, I was angry at a family member who had been causing many of the issues. I didn’t really even want to study the scriptures because I was so irritated at this person. However, I felt that that was the most important thing that I could be doing. Anyway, I was studying scriptures linked together by footnotes in the scriptures. Somehow I ended up in the Old Testament and although the scripture that I was looking for did not have any particular insight, I noticed that there was a marking on one of the following pages. I turned to that page and read the note that I had at some point made in the margin (that I don’t remember clearly why I wrote it). It said, “Is it benefiting anyone, you being angry?” I read the scripture that was next to it and it was about Jonah being angry with someone and the Lord rebuking him for it. The message was very clear that just being angry was not doing any good for any one. I knew then how important it was to pray to repent for being angry and pray for things that I could do to improve the relationship and how I could influence this person’s choices. This is not the first time that the scriptures have directly applied to me. It’s so true, as Elder Hales says, that we talk to Heavenly Father through prayer and He talks to us through the scriptures. We’re so blessed to have the scriptures…I know that I definitely need to take more advantage of the instructions the Lord has given us in them.

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