This Post reminded me of a set of scriptures I have where I put a check mark by verses that were referenced in Church talks and publications; differing marks by usage (meaning) and double underlining words with multiple meanings.
I noticed over time that my favorite scriptures were being marked the most. Experiment over, I bought a new set. Oh yah, and most marked were testimonies of Christ, so I started looking for who was bearing their testimony.
Several years ago, I learned again the power that comes from trying harder to have the scriptures opened to our hearts.
It began when I noticed the scriptures of a man sitting next to me in a meeting. He opened them as the discussion progressed, and I could see that they were marked, as I had done, but with a difference. He had placed colored tags on the edges of pages, keyed to the colors in which he had marked the scriptures.I asked him after the meeting to tell me about it. He showed me the front of his scriptures where he had placed a typed page. On that page were topics about the gospel, each with a line under it. And he had placed the colored markers on the edge of the scriptures, one color for each topic, so that he could study all the scriptures that were helpful to him on that topic.
Within a day I had purchased an inexpensive set of scriptures. But it took more than a few days and more than a few prayers for me to know the topics that would open the scriptures anew for me.
I chose the topics that would teach me of my call to be a witness of Jesus Christ. The first topic is the witness that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; the next is that He is risen; and the third is that He is the head of His Church.
I would not urge you to buy a new set of scriptures, nor to get colored tags and colored pencils, nor to choose the topics that I chose. But I plead with you to return to the scriptures in some way that opens your mind and heart to be taught.