Learn With Joy and Not With Sorrow

This comes from an email I wrote on November 7, 2005:

Jacob 4:3 - "Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first parents."

Jacob here is talking about the difficulty of writing upon the plates. His motivation for doing this difficult task and his understanding of its purpose are explained in verse 3. The phrase from that verse that sticks out to me the most right now is "that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow." Wouldn't you say that we could apply this phrase to ourselves and our use of the scriptures? God has given us the scriptures, and if we use them correctly, then our learning will be joyful. If we choose to ignore the scriptures or try to learn on our own, then our learning may be filled with sorrow.

Just another reason that daily scripture study is a good idea.