President Eyring said these beautiful words, “We grow closer to the Savior as
we, out of pure love, serve others for Him” (Source). God places individuals into our
care (see Acts 27:24). We can be “helpers of [other’s] joy” (2 Corinthians 1:24)
because as we “bear...one another’s burdens…[we] fulfil the law of Christ”
(Galatians 6:2). D&C 132:12 (emphasis added) helps us understand more clearly
what the law of Christ is, “...no man shall come unto the Father but by me or by my
word, which is my law, saith the Lord.” Our ultimate goal is to point others to Christ
because Christ can bring them back into God’s presence. As we minister, we stand
as beacons of light. The Savior said, "...hold up your light that it may shine unto the
world. Behold I am the light which ye shall hold up" (3 Nephi 18:24). We are beacons
of Christ's light.
There is something wonderful that happens in our hearts and to our souls as we
seek to gather more of God’s children into His care and do all in our power to
wear out our lives in pointing them to Christ. By nature of sending us to the front
lines of this battle, God blesses us with the most cutting-edge technology in
terms of spiritual gifts and abilities to do this work with Him. It literally changes
us as our Father grants us this sacred privilege to reach, love, and powerfully
serve His children on His behalf.
seek to gather more of God’s children into His care and do all in our power to
wear out our lives in pointing them to Christ. By nature of sending us to the front
lines of this battle, God blesses us with the most cutting-edge technology in
terms of spiritual gifts and abilities to do this work with Him. It literally changes
us as our Father grants us this sacred privilege to reach, love, and powerfully
serve His children on His behalf.
As the changes in us ripple out from our heart, to our families, to our wards
and stakes, to our communicates and nations, and fills the entire earth, little
by little we build Zion--- a place worthy to receive our Lord and Savior. We
may have the privilege of building up Zion and being there to greet Him
as “...a people [prepared] to meet the Lord and Enoch’s band triumphant in
the air” (HYMNS #41). Maybe meeting our precious Savior isn’t to be at
that spectacular moment of His earthly return, but at some closer date
as we are able to pass through the veil. Regardless of when we see Him
with our mortal eyes, it will not change that we already know Him. We
have already seen Him with our spiritual eyes! “...in a coming day I
shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his
feet with my tears. But I shall not know any better then than I know
now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer,
and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in
no other way” (Source, emphasis added). We don’t have to wait until
we can kiss His wounds or be in His physical presence to know
Him! “...when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see
him as he is” (Moroni 7:48). His image is already written in our countenance.
and stakes, to our communicates and nations, and fills the entire earth, little
by little we build Zion--- a place worthy to receive our Lord and Savior. We
may have the privilege of building up Zion and being there to greet Him
as “...a people [prepared] to meet the Lord and Enoch’s band triumphant in
the air” (HYMNS #41). Maybe meeting our precious Savior isn’t to be at
that spectacular moment of His earthly return, but at some closer date
as we are able to pass through the veil. Regardless of when we see Him
with our mortal eyes, it will not change that we already know Him. We
have already seen Him with our spiritual eyes! “...in a coming day I
shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his
feet with my tears. But I shall not know any better then than I know
now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer,
and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in
no other way” (Source, emphasis added). We don’t have to wait until
we can kiss His wounds or be in His physical presence to know
Him! “...when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see
him as he is” (Moroni 7:48). His image is already written in our countenance.
not just collec-tively, but personally, one day you and I will kneel at the feet
of our Maker. “Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through
the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and
how familiar His face is to us” (Source).
That indescribable moment of joy can only be sweetened by knowing we helped to
bring at least "...one soul" along with us (see D&C 18:15).
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