Insights from Acts 20 and Brother Griffin

This week’s study consisted of Acts 19-21 and I Corinthians 1-7.  The first thing I wanted to share however didn’t come from either of these blocks of text, but from my professor at the beginning of the Wednesday lecture. He asked if ever while you were trying to pray or you were studying your scriptures that you have found that your mind had wandered, and either 20 min later you forgot you were in the middle of your prayer, or at the end of the page you couldn’t recall anything that you had just read. This has happened to me on many many many occasions. Brother Griffin then told us that sometimes we need to recognize what made our mind wander (maybe it’s a test,  your stressed about your relationship with a friend ect.) and go back to the scriptures or your prayer with that in your mind.  Just say a little prayer “Here is my question, help me find the answers in the scriptures…” and often you will be able to find answers to what is troubling your mind that way. It’s not insight I got from the scriptures this time around, but I thought it was good enough to share.  What stood out to me in this week’s reading was Paul’s response to the impending trials that awaited him in Jerusalem in chapter 20: 22-24. He is able to go forward with so much faith and trusts the Lord that even when his friends try to convince him otherwise he still proceeds to go to a city which will inevitably cause him harm. His example gives me courage to face my seemingly puny challenges in comparison with faith that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love me and will help me through.