Answers 'Caught' not 'Taught'

Questions are ways the Lord gets us to think—to learn and internalize eternal truths.  A question mark is but an upside-down hook reminding us that eternal truths are not ‘taught’ they are ‘caught.’

Elder David A. Bednar reminds us: “Instructors... point the way and help [us] take the steps to find [our] own answers...[the] answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith, typically, is retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught—not taught.

The spiritual understanding you and I have been blessed to receive...cannot be given to another person. The tuition of diligence and learning by faith must be paid to obtain and personally “own” such knowledge.”

In order for the answers to sink in you must “catch” them (another way of saying search, ponder and pray). 

One interesting thing about questions is—they’ve been asked before.  And answered before.  You might not like the answer...it might not be your answer...but it has been addressed. To find those answers takes a little homework.

Behind every rule and practise is a doctrine (eternal why found in scripture) and a principle (the application of the why). See Elder Bednar’s talk  “Teach them to Understand."

As Wendy Watson-Nelson reminds us: "Questions come with that little hook at the end.  Therefore, they never come alone.  They hook throughts and feelings and possible actions.  One question can pull all of that into your heart and mind.  That'a a pretty powerful hook!" (see Change your Questions, Change your Life) 
In the next few posts I will go fishing in the living waters for some eternal truths...