Here's a verse that stood out to me the other day; Lehi and his family are traveling through the wilderness and they come to the Red Sea, and they see rivers emptying into it, and this is what Nephi records:
9 And when my father saw that the waters of the river emptied into the fountain of the Red Sea, he spake unto Laman, saying: O that thou mightest be like unto this river, continually running into the fountain of all righteousness!
If i were to think about a fountain of righteousness, I would probably visualize the fountain flowing into me, like me being in the right place to receive revelation or something. But Lehi looks at it a different way, saying that Laman should be like the water flowing into the fountain. I guess Laman's problem wasn't being in the right place, considering his Dad was the Prophet. His problem was that he wasn't searching for righteousness, he was OK with letting himself be dragged along, but he wasn't willing to diligently seek the Lord. I'm probably the same way a lot of the time.
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