1 Nephi 5: We searched them and found that they were desirable; yea even of great worth.

posted by cheryljunegirl

This is nothing new to us,  but I wanted to add it anyway.  Sometimes the obvious can get overlooked.  I was in a Stake Primary meeting yesterday and it brought up that we need to actually open up our scriptures in Primary more.  It is not enough to just tell the stories.  This morning I decided to read chapter five again and vs. 21-22 just jumped out at me.  Kelly mentioned earlier how blessed we are to have the scriptures and how blessed that we are encouraged to read them.  This is so true.  It is after Lehi searches the plates of brass from the beginning that he was filled with the Spirit and began to prophesy concerning his seed.   It seems that the scriptures can answer questions we need answers to and perhaps answer questions and enlighten us concerning our posterity and ourselves without even knowing we had questions to be answered.  I hope that makes sense.  Have any of you ever had an experience that you were filled with the Spirit after reading the scriptures and received revelation about your family or you and you weren’t necessarily even pondering that before reading?  The more we start to understand the “it is wisdom that we should carry the scriptures with us as we journey in the wilderness toward the land of promise”,  the more filled with the Spirit we can be.  We did an exercise in Primary yesterday that I think probably made a greater impact on me than it did the children.  We had a series of questions that we hid in the Primary room.  One child was asked to leave the room and a question was hidden while they were out.  Before they left the room, however, they were designated a helper that they could ask direction from and were told that no matter what they could trust the helper and that helper would always tell them the truth.  When they came back in the room, everyone in the room was telling them conflicting things about where to go to find the question.  Some true, some not.  Truly chaotic.  The first child came back in the room and you could just see the frustration and confusion on their face.  In all the chaos, they had forgotten about the helper.  I gently reminded them that their helper would tell them the truth.  You could see the sense of relief come across their face.  Huge smiles came when they found the question.  This happened in both Jr. and Sr. Primary.  The second child to go out had a much easier time and remembered to use the helper.  One child commented after this.  That was so easy!  In all the confusion and different voices of the world, we like the first child sometimes forget all the helpers the Lord has given us that will always tell us the truth.  If we remember to turn to these helps, scriptures being one of them, it makes things so much easier.  So, even though this is nothing new, a gentle little reminder that we have a “helper” in this world is welcome.