3.242 And Now I See

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.

Hello, my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom you will serve.

You know, every now and then I have a thought come into mind whether it has to do with our readings or not, and I debate every time whether I'm supposed to go this direction in Savory Salt. Well, today we're going that direction. So I'll try to make the connection as best as I can from our readings this week with Psalms 49 through 80.

I hope that these psalms have been an opportunity for you to reflect in your life at the praises of the Lord showing up in challenging times for you as well. And that, I guess, kind of the connection that came to me here as I've been reading this week and came across Elder Holland final General Conference talk inside of my studies, and I guess down kind of all the different rabbit holes that I go when I'm reading. And as I reread that talk, it really felt like I should share a couple of sections from that as our verse for today.

So our our focus is actually Elder Holland final General Conference talk. It was from October of 2025. In it, it called "And Now I See," and that's going to be the focus here.

He shares obviously the story here of the blind man and Jesus Christ healing the blind man. And then he gets to his personal testimony. I think this is the connection I felt to Psalms.

So many of the Psalms I feel like are written from personal experiences and they want to find a way to testify and to witness. And so for Psalms, at least they wrote it into poetry or did it into songs of praise. And here we have modern prophets and apostles that get an opportunity every six months in General Conference to, in effect, give us their personal testimonies and speak directly to their experiences.

I want to give you for our verse for today just a couple of the thoughts here that Elder Holland provided in his talk. Please take some time to go back into this and read it all the way through. But he shares this.

He says, My first sight-giving, life-giving encounter with real evidence of truth did not come with anointing clay or in the pool of Siloam. No, the instrument of truth that brought my healing from the. The claims about this book have been attacked and dismissed by some unbelievers.

The anger. We are often matching the vitriol of those who told the healed man that he could not possibly have experienced what he knew he had experienced. It has been hurled at me that the means by which this book came to be were impractical, unbelievable, embarrassing, and even unholy.

Now, that is harsh language from anyone who presumes to know the means by which the book came to be. Inasmuch as the only description given about those means is that it was translated by the gift and power of God. That's it.

That's all. In any case, the impact of the Book of Mormon in my life is no less miraculous than was the application of spit and dirt placed on the blind man's eyes. It has been for me a rod of safety for my soul, a transcendent and penetrating light of revelation, an illumination of the path I must walk when the mists of darkness come.

And surely they have and surely they will. I'm going to give you one last paragraph of his. A thousand, ten thousand other evidences that what I have spoken of today is true.

So I am delighted now to join my friend huddled on the streets of Jerusalem, where with my diminished voice I sing, "Amazing Grace," how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like I. Once was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I see.

That's all for today, my friends. You and I have come here for such a time as this. Step forward in faith and let's be savory salt. We will be here tomorrow and we hope you are