Written by Rebecca Tyle, a BYU student, studying a volume of scripture known as the Pearl of Great Price, which is written by prophets; members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “Mormons” revere it as sacred text. This post comes from a book within the Pearl of Great Price known, as The Book of Moses; it is an extraction from the translation of the Bible as revealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet, June 1830—February 1831.
Heavenly Father Helps Us Discern
In Moses chapter one, found in scripture held as sacred by Latter-day Saints “Mormons” known as the Pearl of Great Price, God is speaking to Moses. He is explaining how He is eternal, endless, etc. Yet three times, He calls Moses His son, and that Moses is “in the similitude of mine Only Begotten” (Moses 1:6). Later, after communing with God, Moses
mentions, “Now, for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed” (Moses 1:10). This applies to every single person. For me, I can replace “son” with “daughter,” and it would have the exact same meaning. This reminds me of a talk President Dieter F. Uchtdorf (member of the First Presidency in the “Mormon Church”) gave in the October 2011 General Conference titled “You Matter to Him.” The basic idea of his talk is that even though God is all, is everything, is endless and eternal, and even though we are small and insignificant human beings, Heavenly Father still cares about us, loves us, and is always there for us. He still loves and cares for me, even with my imperfections, and my state of nothingness, in comparison to Him. As Moses learned these revealed truths about himself, and received such a strong knowledge of it, he was also able to cast out Satan when Satan appeared to him. Moses said when Satan appeared, “I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten” (Moses 1:13), and discerned that Satan was seeking to deceive. This also applies. For me, I know that the more I know about myself, or am reminded of who I am, a daughter of God, the easier it is for me to discern Satan and his tactics to bring me down, and the easier it is for me to tell him as Moses did, to “get thee hence” (Moses 1:16). As Moses learned that he was a son of God, he could withstand Satan and cast him out. So it is for me. I am a daughter of the Almighty, not the “[daughter] of man” (Moses 1:12), as Satan would put it. All in all, I am literally a child of God, my Father in Heaven.
Additional Resources:
We can live again with God. Learn more at the official site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (inadvertently called by friends of other faiths as the “Mormon Church”).
God the Father sent His son Jesus Christ.
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