Seeking to Know God, Our Heantly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ

My thoughts on Elder Hales' talk "Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ".

A long time ago I was asked to give a talk in church on our Heavenly Father. It was fathers day and I got this assignment whereas my friend go our earthly father. I don't know if you have ever studied "Heavenly Father" in the scriptures, but there are very few times he is mentioned. He only appears when he is introducing His Son. But as you study you will begin to know Him because you know His Son. They are like one. What the Son did, he did because his father did it. Very mind boggling at first and hard to type (at least right now) but it is beautiful and simple. I felt that Elder Hales just put a period at the end of what I learned all those years ago.

I don't need to see either man to know of them, about them or who they are. I feel them in my heart and I see them in the hearts of others who are doing good. I seek to know them through my own study and prayer. I don't need a burning bush, a visit from heaven to know. I just need to study and pray and I have my testimony.

Logically it makes sense as well, but I don't need logic to tell me that there are three being that are unique and yet the same. I have felt the confirmation when I asked. Moroni told us to ask and I did. But the sticking point is with a "sincere heart" not a weak one, but with one that really wants to know. We all have to find that spot in our heart one day and do the asking. Then we need to listen to the answer.

Elder Hales said it best:
"However, we must be careful not to constrain His influence. When we do not do what is right or when our outlook is dominated by skepticism, cynicism, criticism, and irreverence toward others and their beliefs, the Spirit cannot be with us. We then act in a way that the prophets describe as the natural man.

"“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.” This “natural man is an enemy to God, . . . and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, . . . and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, [and] full of love.”

"If we do not yield to the gentle influence of the Holy Ghost, we stand in jeopardy of becoming like Korihor, an anti-Christ in the Book of Mormon. Not only did Korihor disbelieve in God, but he also ridiculed the Savior, the Atonement, and the spirit of prophecy, falsely teaching that there is no God and no Christ."

Amen!

"Brothers and sisters, you may already know, deep in your soul, that God lives. You may not know all about Him yet and do not understand all His ways, but the light of belief is within you, waiting to be awakened and intensified by the Spirit of God and the Light of Christ, which you are born with."