The most important truths we can learn have to do with God. He is the creator of all things, including us. Man was created in the image of God. Just as the animals were created after their kind, man was created after his kind. We are sons and daughters of God. We call God our Heavenly Father because before we were born on this earth, we were endowed with a “spirit body” by God, our Heavenly Father, who loves us and wants us to become like Him.
Jesus’s disciple, John, taught us that the most important truth we can learn is to come to know God. He said: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent (John 17:3).
The Apostle, Paul taught that we should be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live (Hebrews 12:5).
Paul also taught that the things of God are taught by the Spirit and that man could only come to know God through the Spirit of God. He warned: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1Corinthians 2:14).
Paul, himself, had to be knocked off his horse and blinded before he came to know the truth about Jesus Christ. I suppose God, himself, looked down upon this man, who was so zealous in destroying the Christians, because he thought he was doing right in persecuting this “sect” who called themselves Christians. The Savior knew that Paul would be just as zealous in working for the truth if he were set right, so he turned him around 180 degrees and got himself a “dandy!”
Anyone who wants to know truth can find it if he accepts the invitation of Christ: aCome unto me, all ye that blabour and are heavy laden, and I will give you crest.
Take my ayoke upon you, and blearn of me; for I am cmeek and dlowly in eheart: and ye shall find frest unto your souls.
For my yoke is aeasy, and my burden is light (Matthew 11:28-30).
In the King James Version of the Bible, published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there are over 34 pages of small print references to God and Jesus Christ. It takes some work to read all of those references, but it can be done. Those references could only be completed with the advent of the computer, and through the use of a computer one can easily slip from one verse to the other in order to read everything written in the scriptures about God and the Savior.
Even then one could not know unless the Holy Ghost, the third member of the Godhead, were to reveal unto them truth about God. Paul, the apostle taught this truth plainly. He said:
But as it is written, aEye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath bprepared for them that love him.
But God hath arevealed them unto us by his bSpirit: for the cSpirit dsearcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man aknoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God bknoweth no man, cbut the dSpirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:9-11).
Millions upon millions of righteous people have come to know and feel the love of God. These have been willing to be obedient to His will and become sufficiently humble to learn of Him.
Two hundred years ago, in the Spring of 1820, a young man who desired to know truth was led by the Spirit of God to a grove of trees near his home in Palmyra, New York. In that Sacred Grove God the Father revealed himself, as did the Savior Jesus Christ, to him (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith History 1:1-20).
That young man, Joseph Smith Jr. learned, as was promised: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord (James 1:5-7).
Let us be among the believers of God who receive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Merlin Frei