Sheri Dew's advice for those who wonder if it’s OK to ask questions recently made an impact on social media. A short video clip from the Deseret Book CEO's BYU-Idaho devotional address, “Will You Engage in the Wrestle?” from May 17, has been viewed over 200,000 times on Facebook. The "devotional highlight" is the most-viewed video meme on the BYU-Idaho Facebook page, according to school officials.

“If you’ve never asked the Lord how he feels about you, that is a great question to ask,” Dew said as she taught students how to ask and receive answers to inspired gospel questions. “In time and over time, he will tell you and, as he does, you will learn more and more about speaking his language.”

Dew shared what she has learned about asking questions and “wrestling” with the Lord to find answers. One of her examples focused on the church’s policy regarding children of parents in same-sex marriages.

“The Lord wants us to ask every probing question we can muster because not asking questions can be far more dangerous than asking them,” Dew said.

A summary of Dew’s remarks can be read on LDS Church News. See a transcript of the talk, along with video and audio, at byui.edu.

The video was shared over 3,600 times on the BYU-Idaho Facebook page.

“I did that and now I know how it feels for me when the spirit witnesses to me,” one commenter wrote in response to Dew’s challenge.

Will You Engage in the Wrestle? "If you’ve never asked the Lord how He feels about you, that is a great question to ask." - Sheri Dew Posted by BYU-Idaho on Tuesday, May 17, 2016

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