The Savior invited us to, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39). Modern-day prophets have invited us to make this a daily practice. Taking some time each day--even if it is only for a few minutes--will strengthen us to overcome the temptations of daily life, temptations that are made more and more alluring as the world descends into ever greater wickedness.
Tyndale paid the ultimate price for making an English translation of the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew. Elder Robert D. Hales paid tribute to him in the following quotation: “Millions have come to experience for themselves what Tyndale taught throughout his life: ‘The nature of God’s word is, that whosoever read it, . . . it will begin immediately to make him every day better and better, till he be grown into a perfect man’” (Elder Robert D. Hales, “Preparations for the Restoration and the Second Coming,” Ensign, Nov. 2005, 90).
I have taken a few minutes every day to read the scriptures for the past thirty years. This practice as greatly blessed my life, just as Tyndale promised. While I am still a very long way from being a "perfect man," I rejoice in the blessing of the holy scriptures and their powerful invitation and direction to do what is right.
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