Abraham 3:25
Question
What opportunities have you had to “prove” your devotion to Heavenly Father’s plan?
How have some of the “tests” of mortality helped you evaluate your own personal learning and development?
Scripture
25 And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;
Abraham 3:25
Quote
[P]eriodic tests absolutely are essential to learning. An effective test helps us to compare what we need to know with what we actually know about a specific subject; it also provides a standard against which we can evaluate our learning and development.
Likewise, tests in the school of mortality are a vital element of our eternal progression. Interestingly, however, the word test is not found even one time in the scriptural text of the standard works in English. Rather, words such as prove, examine, and try are used to describe various patterns of demonstrating appropriately our spiritual knowledge about, understanding of, and devotion to our Heavenly Father’s eternal plan of happiness and our capacity to seek for the blessings of the Savior’s Atonement.
He who authored the plan of salvation described the very purpose of our mortal probation using the words prove, examine, and try in ancient and modern scripture. “And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.”
Elder David A. Bednar
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