"For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"
This verse made me think of something I read last night in the Book of Mormon Student Manual (Rel 121-11), chapter 22.
"Speaking of a man who had prayed for the visitation of angels, President Wilford Woodruff (1807–98) said:
“I said to him that if he were to pray a thousand years to the God of Israel for that gift, it would not be granted, unless the Lord had a motive in sending an angel to him. I told him that the Lord never did nor never will send an angel to anybody merely to gratify the desire of the individual to see an angel. If the Lord sends an angel to anyone, He sends him to perform a work that cannot be performed only by the administration of an angel. I said to him that those were my views. The Lord had sent angels to men from the creation of the world, at different times, but always with a message or with something to perform that could not be performed without. I rehearsed to him different times when angels appeared to men. Of course, I referred to the angel visiting Joseph Smith. The Revelator John said that in the last days an angel would fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach to them that dwelt on the earth. The reason it required an angel to do this work was, the Gospel was not on the earth. The Gospel and the Priesthood had been taken from among men. Hence God had to restore it again.
“Now, I have always said, and I want to say it to you, that the Holy Ghost is what every Saint of God needs. It is far more important that a man should have that gift than he should have the ministration of an angel, unless it is necessary for an angel to teach him something that he has not been taught” (“The Administration of Angels,” in Brian H. Stuy, comp. Collected Discourses, 5 vols. [1987–92], 5:233).
(Book of Mormon Student Manual (Rel 121-122), Chapter 22)
Why I thought of this was because even good people can go off base seeking the wrong thing. Seeking an angel will not get you anywhere. It is by seeking the Lord through the Holy Ghost that I will find Him. Through this we can obtain eternal life and live.
Day 1459
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