Lesson Recap for March 10

The lesson on 3-10-13 given by Janeen Baylon was #5 from our RS manual "The Grand Destiny of the Faithful."  It is a wonderful pleasure to speak upon the great things that God proposes to bestow upon His sons and daughters, and that we shall attain to if we are faithful."

President Snow adopted this saying as a theme for his life and shared this truth in many of his sermons.

"As man now is, God once was;

 As God now is, man may be." 

He also taught "I believe that we are the sons and daughters of God, and that he has bestowed upon us the capacity for infinite wisdom and knowledge, because He has given us a portion of Himself.  We are told that we were made in His own image, and we find that there is a character of immortality in the soul of man.  There is a spiritual organism with thistabernacle (the physical body) and that spiritual organism has a divinity in itself, though perhaps in an infantile state; but it has within the capacity of improving and advancing, as the infant that receives sustenance from its mother."

In 1John 3:2-3 it reads "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.  And every man that hath this hope in him,purifieth himself, even as he is pure."

President Snow goes on to say "We do not all of us fully comprehend the blessings and privileges that are prepared in the gospel for us to receive.  We do not fully comprehend and we do not have before our view the things which await us in the eternal worlds, nor indeed the things which await us in this life and that are calculated to promote our peace and happiness and answer the desires of our hearts."

"We are all aiming for celestial glory, and the grandeur of the prospects before us cannot be expressed in human language.  If you will continue faithful to the work in which you are engaged, you will attain unto this glory, and rejoice evermore in the presence of God and the Lamb.  This is worth striving for; it is worth sacrificing for, and blessed is the man or the woman who is faithful unto the obtaining of it."

"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in His throne."  Revelation 3:21.

As we continue to strive and sacrifice, let us have greater faith in the blessings that await us. 

Recap by Kris Eddington