Sunday, August 26, 2018
It has been a LONG time since I have written or checked the blog! I apologize! Summer has been so crazy, but it was so much fun being with all of you! I love you SOOOOO much and am so very thankful that WE ARE FAMILY!!! I promise to do better with blogging! Have a GREAT week and remember that you are loved so much by so many people, most especially by our Heavenly Father and elder brother, Jesus Christ.
This a a quote from a section of the book, The Infinite Atonement.
"A PHYSICAL SYMBOL OF THE ATONEMENT
This reconciliation between God and man is figuratively and literally symbolized be an embrace. Lehi alluded to this in his dying sermons to his sons: "The Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love" (2 Nephi 1:15). The Doctrine and Covenants suggests the same imagery: "Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God, and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love" (D&C 6:20). Amulek preached in like fashion: "Mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety" (Alma 34:16). What a beautiful metaphor. What child doesn't feel safe in the arms of his kind and loving father? What peace, warmth, what reassurance, to know that in his arms he is safe from crime, anger rejection, loneliness, and all the ills of this world.
Isaiah spoke of those tender moments when the Lord would "gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom" (Isaiah 40:11). Elder Orson F. Whitney experienced such a glorious moment when he saw a marvelous manifestation of the Savior. In his dream, he said, "I ran to meet Him. . . , fell at His feet, clasped Him around the knees, and begged Him to take me with Him. I shall never forget the kind and gentle manner in which He stooped, raised me up, and embraced me. It was so vivid, so real.I felt the warmth of His body, as He held me in His arms." Who would not long for tat warmth, that embrace?
...Contemplate for a moment the magnetic pull when a little child sees her father on bended knee with arms extended. The invitation is irresistible. The reaction to return is automatic. There is no intellectual analysis. It is like reaching for a blanket in cold weather, turning on a light in a dark room. Some things are not mind-driven, but heart prompted. These are natural yearnings of the soul, the need for warmth, light, and love. Likewise, our Father in Heaven is extending His arms with the intent to entice us home. How irresistible those arms are to those who seek His warmth, His light, and His love. He invites us to the day of reconciliation, the return to our true home, the day of reunification with our primeval family; He invites us to run to His arms and bask in His embrace. This was the Lord's promise to the children of Israel: "I will redeem you with a stretched out arm. . . . And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to a God" (Exodus 6:6-7). "
I really love the imagery that this shows, and the feeling it gives. I love thinking about what it's like for the Savior and Heavenly Father to embrace me.
"A PHYSICAL SYMBOL OF THE ATONEMENT
This reconciliation between God and man is figuratively and literally symbolized be an embrace. Lehi alluded to this in his dying sermons to his sons: "The Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love" (2 Nephi 1:15). The Doctrine and Covenants suggests the same imagery: "Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God, and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love" (D&C 6:20). Amulek preached in like fashion: "Mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety" (Alma 34:16). What a beautiful metaphor. What child doesn't feel safe in the arms of his kind and loving father? What peace, warmth, what reassurance, to know that in his arms he is safe from crime, anger rejection, loneliness, and all the ills of this world.
Isaiah spoke of those tender moments when the Lord would "gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom" (Isaiah 40:11). Elder Orson F. Whitney experienced such a glorious moment when he saw a marvelous manifestation of the Savior. In his dream, he said, "I ran to meet Him. . . , fell at His feet, clasped Him around the knees, and begged Him to take me with Him. I shall never forget the kind and gentle manner in which He stooped, raised me up, and embraced me. It was so vivid, so real.I felt the warmth of His body, as He held me in His arms." Who would not long for tat warmth, that embrace?
...Contemplate for a moment the magnetic pull when a little child sees her father on bended knee with arms extended. The invitation is irresistible. The reaction to return is automatic. There is no intellectual analysis. It is like reaching for a blanket in cold weather, turning on a light in a dark room. Some things are not mind-driven, but heart prompted. These are natural yearnings of the soul, the need for warmth, light, and love. Likewise, our Father in Heaven is extending His arms with the intent to entice us home. How irresistible those arms are to those who seek His warmth, His light, and His love. He invites us to the day of reconciliation, the return to our true home, the day of reunification with our primeval family; He invites us to run to His arms and bask in His embrace. This was the Lord's promise to the children of Israel: "I will redeem you with a stretched out arm. . . . And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to a God" (Exodus 6:6-7). "
I really love the imagery that this shows, and the feeling it gives. I love thinking about what it's like for the Savior and Heavenly Father to embrace me.
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