“I’ve fallen so behind on my scripture study! I don’t know if I’ll be able to catch up.”
I hear people saying something similar to this whenever we read the scriptures on a specific study schedule.
(Looking at you, Come Follow Me…)
Here’s my favorite advice I always share with people who are concerned:
Stop trying to catch up and just join us where we are!
My reasoning?
The gospel is so repetitive.
You will NOT miss some big essential gospel truth you would never have learned about if you didn’t read one particular chapter.
If you missed the scriptures talking about personal revelation and asking questions last week, you will most certainly hear about it again soon.
I think about Joseph experiencing the Angel Moroni coming to his room three times in one night and telling him the same words, and then appearing to him the next day to remind him to tell his father.
“. . . He then again related unto me all that he had related to me the previous night, and commanded me to go to my father.”(JSH 1:49)
I imagine Joseph then going to the Hill Cumorah, only to be told that he can’t take the plates yet but needs to return the next year.
And then the next.
And then the next.
This gospel is so repetitive in the best way possible!
We can learn about charity and service as a little kid…
And then the principle can take on new meaning as we learn a lesson on charity in a Young Women class…
And then after a loved one passes away, a scripture about charity takes our understanding to an even deeper level.
“Repetition is a law of learning”. – President Gordon B. Hinckley
Just be in the scriptures each day, and the Lord will take care of the rest!
Happy Studying!
-Cali Black
