God invites all people to come to know him better, all of the time.1 While knowledge about God is a limitless feast,2 individuals differ significantly in how much of it they obtain and live. Different people desire to know more about God with different intensities. How much you learn about him is determined by the effort you exert in searching for more3 and the obedience you exercise in applying what you know.4
God’s knowledge is an unending resource that we are meant to continue seeking after indefinitely.5 Only those who continually search for more of God’s knowledge obtain eternal life.6 Those who stop searching after God’s knowledge will experience the loss of some of the knowledge they have obtained,7 although their diminished awareness will make this more difficult to notice.8
If you believe that God knows all things9 and that he cares more about your eternal joy than you do,10 it should be extremely easy to constantly seek his guidance on all things in your life.11 You will constantly seek and joyfully feast on any knowledge he is willing to give.12 The blessing of desiring more knowledge about and from God is obtaining and living according to it.13 Those who do not seek greater knowledge about and from God turn away from his offered gift to help them become better and achieve more than they ever could in and of themselves.14
Footnotes
- 1. ...he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him.... (2 Nephi 26:33) ↩
- 2. Yea, he saith: Come unto me and ye shall partake of the fruit of the tree of life; yea, ye shall eat and drink of the bread and the waters of life freely; (Alma 5:34) ↩
- 3. Therefore, O my son, whosoever will come may come and partake of the waters of life freely; and whosoever will not come the same is not compelled to come; but in the last day it shall be restored unto him according to his deeds. (Alma 42:27) ↩
- 4. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. (Matthew 13:12) ↩
- 5. O all ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and receive the pleasing word of God, and feast upon his love; for ye may, if your minds are firm, forever. (Jacob 3:2 ↩
- 6. Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life. (2 Nephi 31:20) ↩
- 7. Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the word of God, and we need no more of the word of God, for we have enough! For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have. (2 Nephi 28:29-30) ↩
- 8. And they that will harden their hearts, to them is given the lesser portion of the word until they know nothing concerning his mysteries; and then they are taken captive by the devil, and led by his will down to destruction. Now this is what is meant by the chains of hell. (Alma 12:11) ↩
- 9. O how great the holiness of our God! For he knoweth all things, and there is not anything save he knows it. (2 Nephi 9:20) ↩
- 10. He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him.... (2 Nephi 26:24) ↩
- 11. But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul. (2 Nephi 32:9) Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day. (Alma 37:37) ↩
- 12. Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do. (2 Nephi 32:3) ↩
- 13. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6) ↩
- 14. Behold, they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule and reign over them; notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide. (Helaman 12:6) ↩