Learning

The glory of God is intelligence.” It could go on to say, “Or in other words light and truth,” and, further, to say that “light and truth forsake that evil one” (D&C 93:36–37). You don’t have to read that very often before you begin to understand why knowledge is important, why intelligence is necessary, why light and truth are tools in forsaking the evil one.

I love this quote because it shows me why learning and seeking knowledge are important. For anyone who knows me I love to learn and find out the meaning of things. The reason we need to know things and seek out knowledge is because the more we know the better we are able to handle situations that we face in life.

If we know it is wrong to get angry than less likely we are to get angry. If I know stealing is wrong than I won't steal. The more we know about the gospel of Jesus Christ the more we learn that we alone cannot go through life and be saved. We know we must rely on the Atonement of Jesus Christ to be saved. We do this by repenting of our sins.

How do we gain knowledge? We must first desire to learn and the act on the desire. We must study and read the scriptures and learn from the best books. We must experience things for ourselves. We must make mistakes and learn how we can handle similar situations in the future.

Knowledge helps us fight against Satan. If we study the scriptures and read the best books we will gain knowledge. We must also apply those lessons and the ones we learn by experience in order to gain more knowledge. If we hope to saved in the kingdom of God then we must gain knowledge.