Glory

Have you ever wondered if receiving the light of Christ in your countenance is in fact a literal saying? They say that you can see it in the eyes of those who have received it. Line upon line, precept upon precept, we receive knowledge and learn and grow. I think that many people believe that when we die, we have the veil removed and remember everything that we forgot. But does that mean that we suddenly know everything? Why then, is it said that whatever knowledge we obtain in this life, so much will be our advantage in the next?

We have tendencies, weaknessess, and flaws that we are seemingly born with. We learn that this is because in the pre-existence, we had an identity. The same weaknessess we have now and the same strenghts; the same likes and dislikes; we were the same person before we came as we are now. We shouldn't be discouraged when we have weaknessess; rather, we should be overjoyed with the knowledge that we overcame them before we came here.

It is said that we fought Lucifer in the great war in heaven. We stood by God and fought for him. His elect not only fought, but fought valiantly. Well, there was no physical fighting in heaven, so how did we fight? It is the same spiritual fight that we are fighting right now. We can do it now, because we already did it before; maybe not at the same magnitude, because we didn't have a body. We couldn't feel the same things that we can now. It's more powerful now; the emotion, the pain, the joy.

Men are that they might have joy.

We beheld God and his glory and we wanted to be like him. How do we achieve what God has? How do we become a God, a creator of worlds?

We learn. Line upon line...

So that brings us back to the glory. When we are resurrected, we will immediately have a glorified body right? I don't believe that is true. Don't quote me, but as far as I know, we will have the same body that we had, except for it will be immortal. We will never die again. To achieve a celestial, glorified body, we have to learn. As we understand and learn more truth, our bodies will become more and more glorified. I dunno if that is correct. I think it might be.

God is truth. The light. As we receive more light, our bodies literally shine with the glory that is in us.

Hmm... anyway, that's what was on my mind.