The Book of Mormon
As I finished up my freshman year, there was one accomplishment that I am definitely most proud of. Along with realizing that I had done it, I had made it through the year without any broken bones or empty bank accounts (almost), I had done something much more significant.
I read the Book of Mormon.
I’ve read it before and gained a testimony of it, but never quite like this. I read the Book of Mormon in my religion classes. Yes, I was tested on it. I wrote papers about it. I looked at it as if it were literature. And you know what? It was quite amazing. Heck, I didn’t even get an A in Book of Mormon the second semester. But I really don’t care, because I learned quite a lot. And that’s all that really matters in the end, is how much you learned.
I want to tell you why I know the Book of Mormon is true. Why I believe with all of my heart that it is the Word of God.
The Book of Mormon comes with a promise.
The prophet Moroni, at the end of the Book of Mormon, gives this promise to its readers:
And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
When I pray to know if the Book of Mormon is true, I am filled with love. I read it, and I love God more. I love my family more, roommates more, my friends more, and even people I might be holding a grudge against that day. When I read the Book of Mormon, I am filled with this overwhelming sense, feeling, and knowledge that this is true.
Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be eperfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
See, this verse is saying that only through Christ’s grace may we become perfect in Him. Christ does it all, when we let him. Once we accept Him into our hearts, and show that belief through our love toward him, (If ye love me, keep my commandments), then we can be “perfect in Christ”. Only through His grace.
And these verses don’t even skim the surface of the testimony of Christ’s love and atonement testified of in the Book of Mormon. When I read the Book of Mormon, I feel close to God. I feel His love, through the sacrifice of His son, Jesus Christ.
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