Something important to me

As I reflected upon my scripture study this morning, I was once again reminded that there has been great sacrifices made so that we can have our scriptures. There have been sacrifices of time, fasting and prayer. There has been fear for one's life to preserve the records. Lives have been freely given and lives taken for the truths of the things contained in the scriptures. Children have suffered the loss of fathers and/or mothers who defended the sacred records. Individuals have gone without sleep, and food and comfort so that we could have the Book of Mormon today. In order to have our scriptures people have had to hide in caves, have had to feel inadequate in their ability to write or have sought worthiness to receive revelation. Individuals have left home, been spit upon, stoned, imprisoned for trying to bring the JOY of the gospel of Jesus Christ into the lives of those "who did not understand." I wonder if there are many of us today "who do not understand." In all of known history Satan has tried to keep sacred records from coming forth. Just read the Book of Mormon with the intent of understanding how important the records were and how hard Satan tried to thwart the keeping of the records, and you will soon see that we will never know all that has been done to give us our scriptures. Today, scriptures are miraculously available to us all; and yet, we are distracted from them by all of the entertainment that is available to us and by our "busy"ness with life. We have been given a precious gift from our Father in Heaven, and I pray that we are using it and showing Him that we are thankful for it. I think we can all do a little bit better.