Feasting on the Scriptures

Nate and I took the kids to the Phoenix area for a few days to visit his family. We attended Sacrament meeting on Sunday with Nate's brother Kent and his family. One of the speakers that morning was a sister who had recently returned from a mission in Russia. The area in which she served received mail using the pouch system which as I understand it, significantly increases the time it takes to receive mail. Not only that, but the area she was in was so remote, even after the mail came to the mission home, she didn't receive it for another six weeks. They would bring all of the mail to the missionaries at zone conferences and following the conference, the mail would get passed out. She talked about how on those mail days, they didn't even want to eat dinner. They just devoured their mail and read all night long these "treasures" from home. And to them, the mail was a treasure.

She likened the letters to the scriptures. She said it would have made her family very sad if she never read their letters. How sad would it make Heavenly Father if we never opened up his letters (the scriptures); if we didn't consider them to be treasures? We should view our scriptures as te treasures they truly are and remember that they really do come from a loving Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ because he said "whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same". (Docterine & Convenants 1:38)

I'm afraid she probably told this a lot better than I just did, but it made me think about the scriptures in way I had ever considered before. I hope this analogy will be helpful for the next time I teach a lesson on the scriptures.