“Abraham’s heart seems to have been right long before Sarah
conceived Isaac and before they received their promised land. Heaven had other
purposes to fulfill first. Those purposes included not only building Abraham
and Sarah’s faith but also teaching them eternal truths that they shared with
others on their long, circuitous route to the land prepared for them. The
Lord’s delays often seem long; some last a lifetime. But they are always
calculated to bless. They need never be times of loneliness or sorrow or
impatience.
“Although His time is not always our time, we can be sure
that the Lord keeps His promises. For any of you who now feel that He is hard
to reach, I testify that the day will come that we all will see Him face to
face. Just as there is nothing now to obscure His view of us, there will be
nothing to obscure our view of Him. We will all stand before Him, in person. …We
want to see Jesus Christ now, but our certain reunion with Him at the judgment
bar will be more pleasing if we first do the things that make Him as familiar
to us as we are to Him. As we serve Him, we become like Him, and we feel closer
to Him as we approach that day when nothing will hide our view.”
Read the complete sermon:
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/where-is-the-pavilion?lang=eng
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