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45 The
earth rolls upon her wings, and the sun giveth his light by day, and the moon
giveth her light by night, and the stars also give their light, as they roll
upon their wings in their glory, in the midst of the power of God.
46 Unto
what shall I liken these kingdoms, that ye may understand?
47 Behold,
all these are kingdoms, and any man who
hath seen any or the least of these hath seen God moving in his majesty and
power.
48 I say
unto you, he hath seen him; nevertheless, he who came unto his own was not
comprehended. (D&C 88:45-48, emphasis added)
In what way is seeing
astronomical bodies like seeing God moving in His majesty and power?
It’s a strange irony
that the further away a planet is, the less awesome it seems. The moon is the
closest other astronomical body to us, and yet we take it for granted. The
further we are, the less we see of all the fascinating individual features and
the more likely we are over-simplify our understanding of it. But the closer we get, the greater it
becomes in our view until we get so close that our finite minds can no longer
grasp its vastness and all its characteristics.
It’s the same with
God. The further we are from Him spiritually, the less we understand of Him,
the less awesome He seems (to the point He seems not awesome at all), the less
we see of His character. Thus, we greatly oversimplify His idea, and that
distorts our knowledge even more.
But the closer we draw to God, the greater and more majestic His
perfections become until our finite minds simply explode, unable to comprehend
Him fully.
Another case in
point: we’re so close to this earth we stand on, and can we fully comprehend its size and complexity and elegant
systems? No. In the same way, mortal man was completely unable to grasp the
full majesty and power of Christ during His mortal ministry among them.
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