Who doesn't want "exceedingly great joy"? But how do we get it? What must we do?
Lehi gives the answer as he recounts his dream of the Tree of Life. The thing that gave him exceedingly great joy was to partake of the fruit.
It's not always easy or convenient to partake of the fruit. Sometimes it involves sacrifice. But the reward is so great!
It's interesting to me that the very next thing Lehi did after he partook of the fruit and experienced such joy was to look around for his family. Of course he would want to share such joy with his loved ones. What point is there in keeping joy to yourself? When your loved ones experience joy also, it multiplies your own joy. Who hasn't watched their children tearfully bear their testimony, while tears ran down their own faces? We rejoice in the righteous lives and examples of our children. We rejoice in our Savior. We rejoice in the Fruit. This is true joy.
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I love this, but I would make one correction. I think it always involves sacrifice to partake of the fruit. It might not hardly ever feel like sacrifice, but we are sacrificing the things of the world to turn to the things of God. Sacrifice means to make holy, to sanctify. So every time we partake of the fruit, we are NOT partaking of things of the world. Sacrifice is described as giving up something desirable for something better.
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