Galatians 5:22-23 states, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Throughout the scriptures, it talks about identifying the Spirit with a burning in the bosom, however, that is seldom the case. Doctrine and Covenants 8:2 explains how the Spirit communicates with people. “Yea, behold, I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart. D & C 9:8 states, “But if it be not right you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong; therefore, you cannot write that which is sacred save it
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The Spirit works in mysterious ways and does not communicate with everyone the same way. It is important to discover how the Spirit speaks to you personally so you are able to act on the promptings and revelations you receive. After finding out how the Spirit communicates to you personally, then you are able to receive the blessings that come to you once you have the Spirit to be with you. The best blessing possible that the Spirit gives to us is the ability to discern right from wrong. We are able to know if something is of good or of evil just by listening to what the Holy Ghost has to say to us. While studying and receiving an education at BYU, we are able to learn both spiritually and secularly at the same time. We are blessed with this, while other students at different schools only have the ability to learn secular knowledge, which consist of many deficits. Theories change, the knowledge of man is always in flux, the theories of man do not explain existence, and to top it all off, men say that this existence is meaningless. As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we know that this existence is far from meaningless. This is just one example of how learning secularly while learning spiritually can bless the lives of those involved. In Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sit and Look Out,” one is able to catch a glimpse of what the world could be like without the influence …show more content…
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill 'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the
The Spirit works in mysterious ways and does not communicate with everyone the same way. It is important to discover how the Spirit speaks to you personally so you are able to act on the promptings and revelations you receive. After finding out how the Spirit communicates to you personally, then you are able to receive the blessings that come to you once you have the Spirit to be with you. The best blessing possible that the Spirit gives to us is the ability to discern right from wrong. We are able to know if something is of good or of evil just by listening to what the Holy Ghost has to say to us. While studying and receiving an education at BYU, we are able to learn both spiritually and secularly at the same time. We are blessed with this, while other students at different schools only have the ability to learn secular knowledge, which consist of many deficits. Theories change, the knowledge of man is always in flux, the theories of man do not explain existence, and to top it all off, men say that this existence is meaningless. As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we know that this existence is far from meaningless. This is just one example of how learning secularly while learning spiritually can bless the lives of those involved. In Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sit and Look Out,” one is able to catch a glimpse of what the world could be like without the influence …show more content…
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill 'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the