The Vital Importance of Daily Scripture Study for Spiritual Growth and Revelation

In a First Presidency message to the Church, President Joseph Fielding Smith declared:

Everyone should learn something new every day. You all have inquiring minds and are seeking truth in many fields. I sincerely hope your greatest search is in the realm of spiritual things, because it is there that we are able to gain salvation and make the progress that leads to eternal life in our Father’s kingdom. The most important knowledge in the world is gospel knowledge. It is a knowledge of God and his laws, of those things that men must do to work out their salvation with fear and trembling before the Lord. (Ensign 1:2 [May 1971], italics added.)

“The most important knowledge in the world is gospel knowledge,’” and men in the priesthood have available to them the power by which a fulness of gospel knowledge may be had. (Read D&C 107:18. 19.) But that knowledge does not automatically descend upon the head of a man when he is ordained. And the knowledge of the gospel contained in the standard works will stay in the standard works unless and until men in the priesthood dig it out for themselves. Your objective is to set aside a definite time every day to search and ponder the scriptures in order that your life may be marked by the conviction and direction that result from regular scripture…