I love scripture. I love the Bible. I love the Book of Mormon. I love how I can learn from scripture every time I read--that, no matter how many times I've read a passage, I can learn something new every time. Right now I am working on reading through the Book of Mormon in Spanish. Though I took three years of Spanish in high school, I am very rusty, and some of the words I come across are not colloquial language, so I read the Spanish translation online and have my English hardcopy out for reference.
Most of all, I love how it complements the Bible and supports it. The contents of its pages remind me that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for ever" (Hebrews 13:8), and because I strive to live like Christ, and because He is unchanging, I want to not only be those things that Christ is--compassionate, kind, gentle, forgiving, etc.--but I also want to be those things always, to be consistently that way.
"For he is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world, if it so be that they repent and come unto him. For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round." ~1 Nephi 10:18-19 (emphasis added)
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