Say Your Prayers and Read Your Scriptures

“I could not forget His face
As I wandered from that place.
With the questions ever burning.
I put myself to learning.
And each answer came with grace.

And I knelt in earnest prayer.
His memory still there
And the more that I'd enquire.
The hotter burned the fire.
I found joy beyond compare.”

-Oh Lord, My Redeemer by Jeff Goodrich

Often when I hear something once, I don’t think much about it.  When I hear something twice, I pay attention.  When I hear it a third time, I start to feel a bit like I imagine Peter did after the Savior asked him three times, “Do you love me?”  

Yesterday, I heard others reference these lyrics three times in a relatively short time period.   The angel Moroni visited Joseph Smith no less than 4 times when delivering him life changing news… each message nearly identical.  Repetition.  There is a lot of it in our church.  Why? Elder Bednar said, “Repetitious learning and teaching as a line upon line and precept upon precept pattern of revelation can invite the Holy Ghost to renew, enrich, and enlarge the knowledge we already have obtained; it also can bring new knowledge and understanding into our minds and hearts.” I know you have heard a million times to say your prayers and read your scriptures.  So have I, but I was still glad for the poetic reminder and the repetition of that reminder because in thinking on it and the way it is worded, my testimony has been strengthened.