You may have heard someone ask this question, or you may have asked it yourself--
"How can each member always have the Holy Ghost to be with them when there are so many members of the church?"
This is a good question, and there are probably things the
Holy Ghost can do as a spirit that we don’t know much about, and I think we
need more revelation on how it is done, but I can share a metaphor that has
satisfied me so far so that I have faith that he is with worthy members, each and all.
When I was in high school, we got to go see a laser light
show. At the beginning, they
showed us a single green dot on the screen and explained this was the only
laser they used. They moved the
dot back and forth slowly in a line, then faster and faster until the path of
the dot blurred together and appeared to become a solid line. To our perception that single dot was
everywhere on the line at once.
Then they took that line and began to form it into all kinds of curving
shapes and designs that morphed from one thing to the next, and the whole show
consisted of this kind of thing set to music. As I considered that all of that laser animation was made of
a green dot moving faster than my eye could follow, my brain just about
exploded.
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Perhaps the Holy Ghost moves among us faster than we can
detect. Yes, this is speculation,
and the mechanics by which the Holy Ghost can be simultaneously with us may be
something different, but this metaphor helps me have faith that the promise
about having the presence of the Holy Ghost can be fulfilled. If a laser dot can seem to be
everywhere in a line, it’s definitely a cinch for the Holy Ghost to be
everywhere the members are.
2 comments:
I absolutely LOVE this! This is something I have wondered about, and really appreciate your speculation. :) I don't understand how it works, but I too have faith that it does. There is so much that our minds have yet to learn and so much science that we don't yet understand; but evidence of millions all over the earth feeling His presence and being guided by Him are evidence enough to me that His influence IS over all...
I'm glad this helped you, Corine. I certainly look forward to learning more about these things. (Nice to know that someday the questions will be answered.) And you are right; the evidence of millions being guided by the Holy Ghost is evidence that God's influence IS over all. We only hear the smallest fraction of stories about this. (Won't it be lovely someday to hear all those stories?)
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