The True Source of Knowledge

I love my laptop!  I was trained as a researcher when I worked on my graduate degrees.  In the beginning, it was difficult to develop the discipline to do the work, but I grew to enjoy it.  I am naturally curious and research helped me learn.

Then, about 15 or so years ago, I became acquainted with the Internet.  Oh, wow!  I was like a child in a toy store!  Information so profuse that I couldn't study it all if I studied non-stop for the rest of my life!  When I was born, information was doubling about once every 500 years.  Now, it is doubling every few months.  A veritable feast!  It would be easy to become a glutton; an info junkie.

Fortunately, while my research skills were growing, so were my spiritual research skills, for there is a source of information the worldwide web cannot touch.  I am talking about the Holy Spirit.  He is the source of true knowledge about the things that matter the most.  On the web, it is easy to become caught up in the thick of thin things (Neal A. Maxwell.)  With the Spirit as my guide, the things I learn are never thin nor trivial: they are vital.  The Spirit can download knowledge, testimony, affirmation, confirmation, and comfort at speeds of which Microsoft can only dream!

 

Even my online research can be affirmed or refuted as I seek the Spirit to sift through the dross that is out there.  An ancient prophet once wrote: And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.  And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things. (Moroni 10: 4-5)

 

Yes, I love my laptop; but I love my connection with the Holy Spirit far more.  If I had to do without one or the other, it is a no-brainer which I would choose to delete.

 

Text copyright Gebara Education March 2013

 

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Picture of Holy Spirit as a dove from www.turnbacktogod.com