Beginning today, each week Meridian Magazine’s founders, Scot and Maurine Proctor, will be giving a 30-minute podcast on the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum for the week. This is so you can listen with your scriptures in hand, or while you are about life’s many other duties. If you want some thoughts about teaching your family or in Church lessons, this can be a place to turn. If you live alone, let us study with you.

This week the podcast is “We are Responsible for our Own Learning”, and to aid in your study below the podcast is a list of the scriptures and references that we discuss. We hope you will join us, because we think there’s nothing more fun than delving into the scriptures!

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References:

Joshua 24:15

Choose you this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell, “Why Not Now?” Ensign, Nov. 1974.

Joshua didn’t say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of “this day,” while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

When Jesus called his first disciples, the scriptures record that they left their ships and nets “straightway.” They didn’t ask to join Jesus after the fishing season; they didn’t even delay their response in order to make just one more catch. They left “straightway”! (See Matt. 4:20)

Act, my brothers and sisters, for once the soul is tilted toward belief, and once there is even a desire to believe, then marvelous things begin to happen! Once one leaves the porch and comes inside the Church, then one not only hears the music more clearly—he becomes a part of it.

Act now, so that in a thousand years from now, when you look back at this moment, you can say this was a moment that mattered—this was a day of determination.

Enos 5,6.

And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed.

And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie, wherefore my guilt was swept away.

1 Nephi 10:17

And it came to pass after I, Nephi, having heard all the words of my father, concerning the things which he saw in a vision, and also the things which he spake by the power of the Holy Ghost, which power he received by faith on the Son of God—and the Son of God was the Messiah who should come—I, Nephi, was desirous also that I might see, and hear, and know of these things, by the power of the Holy Ghost, which is the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him, as well in times of old as in the time that he should manifest himself unto the children of men.

John 5:39

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.

Isaiah 34:16

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail.

D&C 1: 37, 38

Search these commandments, for they are true and faithful, and the prophecies and promises which are in them shall all be fulfilled.

What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mind own voice or by the voice of the my servants, it is the same.

President Russell M. Nelson, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for our Lives”, Ensign, April 2018.

Alma 32: 28, 37, 41

Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good see, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—it must needs be a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.

And behold, as the tree beginneth to grow, ye will say: Let us nourish it with great care, that it may get root, that it may grow up and bring forth fruit unto us. And now behold, it ye nourish it with much care it will get root, and grow up, and bring forth fruit.

But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root; and behold it shall be a tree springing up unto everlasting life.

James 1: 5,6

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.

Matt. 4: 2-10 The Temptation of Christ after his 40-Day Fast.

Elder David A. Bednar “Seek Learning by Faith”, Ensign, Sept. 2007.

Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Spencer W. Kimball, “Obedience Born of Faith in God”, Chapter 13.

And remember that there were no heavenly beings in Palmyra, on the Susquehanna or on Cumorah when the soul-hungry Joseph slipped quietly into the Grove, knelt in prayer on the river bank, and climbed the slopes of the sacred hill.