I do wish that heaven had visiting hours. If it did, who would you go visit, possibly a child that left you too early, or a loved one, or would you get in line to visit our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and our Father in Heaven? I think that it is imperative for us to realize that we do not have to wait. Our children and loved ones are serving us continuously, we may not see them but they are there and helping us more than we can imagine. Joseph Smith has spoken on several occasions about how we should seek to have our calling and elections made sure, and he further taught that that means that the Savior will appear unto us and even the Father will make His abode with us from time to time.
John 14:23
If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14?lang=eng
Here is Joseph Smith on this subject:
“After a person has faith in Christ, repents of his sins, and is baptized for the remission of his sins and receives the Holy Ghost (by the laying on of hands), which is the first Comforter, then let him continue to humble himself before God, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and living by every word of God, and the Lord will soon say unto him, Son, thou shalt be exalted. When the Lord has thoroughly proved him, and finds that the man is determined to serve Him at all hazards, then the man will find his calling and his election made sure, then it will be his privilege to receive the other Comforter, which the Lord hath promised the Saints, as is recorded in the testimony of St. John, in the 14th chapter, from the 12th to the 27th verses….
Now what is this other Comforter? It is no more nor less than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself; …when any man obtains this last Comforter, he will have the personage of Jesus Christ to attend him, or appear unto him from time to time, and even He will manifest the Father unto him, and they will take up their abode with him, and the visions of the heavens will be opened unto him, and the Lord will teach him face to face, and he may have a perfect knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God; and this is the state and place the ancient Saints arrived at when they had such glorious visions-Isaiah, Ezekiel, John upon the Isle of Patmos, St. Paul in the three heavens, and all the Saints who held communion with the general assembly and Church of the First Born.” [TPJS, pp. 150-51].
I know that this is what I desire more than anything else. Let us join together and be more obedient to the word of God to our hearts, and keep the commandments of God continually and we will be well on our way to this glorious moment when the Father and the Son will take up their abode with us. The thought is almost too great for me. Let’s start today!!!
Craig
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