Drawing closer to God begins with Faith and Hope. Wondering first… if there is a God in Heaven. Exercising enough faith to search for answers about your own existence, and hope that there is more to life than mortality. Some may never question while others may search a lifetime for answers.
Just as our bodies need nourishment so does our Faith. I can’t think of a better way to learn about faith and hope than by reading Alma in the Book of Mormon which is another testament of Jesus Christ.
Alma 32:28
“Now, we will compare the word (faith) unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart. Behold if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves–It must needs be that this is a good seed. Or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.”
Simply by entertaining the possibility of a God or Father in Heaven and planting that seed of Faith in your heart and nourishing it through prayer and scripture study consistently will not only increase your understanding and belief but will most surely draw you closer to God and to His son Jesus Christ.
I testify that this is true. I have tested the words of Alma. I cannot deny the existence of my Father in Heaven. I feel His love through the power of the Holy Ghost. I feel His hand in my life!