Daily Answers: Wisdom

​Over the past almost two years I’ve developed a daily habit for receiving revelation through my scripture study. I begin my study with asking a question in prayer. Sometimes I already have a question, but most days I ask my Heavenly Father in prayer what my question should be. Then I read the scriptures watching for an answer to my question and write down the answers. I receive revelation in other ways as well. The day before in prayer, the thought came to me to do a “Daily Answers” blog where I share some of the revelation I’ve received. I was hesitant to follow this revelation because many of my answers are very personal and I don’t want to appear boastful. This morning my question was, “What should I do for a ‘Daily Answers’ blog?” The beauty of pondering a question while studying the scriptures is that even scriptures I’ve read many times take on new and clearer meaning.

I read Mosiah 4 today and here’s the answers I received in connection to my question, the passages that touched my heart. “Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend” (Mosiah 4:9). “…humble yourselves…calling on the name of the Lord daily” (Mosiah 4:11). “…ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true” (Mosiah 4:12). “But ye will teach [your children] to walk in the ways of truth and soberness…” (Mosiah 4:15). “…impart of the substance that ye have one to another…” (Mosiah 4:21). “And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order…” (Mosiah 4:27). How do I know what to write in a daily answers blog, how to parent my children, how to receive salvation, how to impart of my substance in wisdom and order? I don’t. But God does. The answer is to “believe in God. Believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heave and in earth” (Mosiah 4:9). Do I really believe in God? Believe that he created ne, that he created all things? That he has “all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth?” (Mosiah 4:9). I do. Because as I’ve repented, humbled myself, asked in sincerity of heart that he would forgive me, and called on the name of the Lord daily, I have grown in the knowledge of the glory of him who created me (Mosiah 4:9-12). I’ve grown in that knowledge by the answers he’s given me specific to my situation.

This entire chapter was a testimony, an answer to me, that I do receive answers daily and that I have something to share.
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Another beautiful part of this process is that most of the time I don’t know what I’ll be reading for that day. I ask the question first, then I open to the Come Follow Me lesson or a conference talk or where I’m directed and I always receive an answer, a message of personal revelation that tells me that I am known and loved by my Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.