The Scriptures Are for Me

By Ginger Murnieks

      Before we left for our trip to Meso-America, my mom purchased nine Spanish Book of Mormons to give away to Lamanite descendants in Meso-America.  We planned to give one away every day of the trip.  At first I was a little unsure about this because I didn’t know how people would receive the books, but I was excited to share the gospel with those who had never heard it before.  God blessed us tremendously!  Every single person that we gave a book to received it enthusiastically.  I was so excited and a little surprised.

     I didn’t really understand what was going on until one night the answer was revealed to me.  I was talking to one of my brothers about how enthusiastic people were to receive the Word, and he said one night he couldn’t sleep and he decided to read the scriptures.  He said that when he couldn’t sleep, he would usually read the Bible, but on this night he reached for the Book of Mormon.  He read one of the parts in the Book of Mormon about how the Gentiles will take the Book of Mormon to the descendants of the Lamanites and how they will rejoice over it.  I saw the scriptures being fulfilled in my lifetime and this amazed me.  The great God that worked among Nephi, Alma, and the Brother of Jared is working among us today.

     When I read the scriptures I somehow think that the scriptures were fulfilled by people that came before me or they will be fulfilled by those that come after me, or that maybe they will be fulfilled by me but it won’t happen until I’m older.  This experience helped me to realize more fully that the scriptures are for me and that I have a work to do right now.  This amazes me and I am so grateful to my God for this understanding. 

 

 

“And it came to pass that I beheld the remnant of the seed of my brethren, and also the book of the Lamb of God, which had proceeded forth from the mouth of the Jew, that it came forth from the Gentiles, unto the remnant of the seed of my brethren; And after it had come forth unto them, I beheld other books which came forth by the power of the Lamb, from the Gentiles unto them, unto the convincing of the Gentiles, and the remnant of the seed of my brethren, and also the Jews, who were scattered upon all the face of the earth, that the records of the prophets and of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are true.”

~ 1 Nephi 3:190-191