✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 39 ✨ Apostolic Witness — Too Sacred to Share?

✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 39 ✨
Apostolic Witness — Too Sacred to Share?

📝 Their Message (Summary)
Modern Apostles often testify of Jesus with phrases like “I know He lives” while carefully avoiding specifics. Elder Cook recently said he worries about saying too much because “sacred things” must be guarded. Many Latter-day Saints accept this explanation, repeating the phrase “too sacred to share.”

But scripture gives us a different pattern. From Lehi’s opening vision (1 Nephi 1) to Nephi, to Joseph Smith, prophets testify boldly and plainly of what they saw and heard. Oliver Cowdery charged the Twelve to “never cease striving until you have seen God face to face,” declaring their ordination incomplete until God Himself laid hands upon them. Numbers 12:6 affirms the same: “If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known…in a vision.”

If those ancient prophets had considered their visions “too sacred,” we would have no Bible, no Book of Mormon, no Doctrine and Covenants. Instead, they bore witness of what they saw—even when mocked, persecuted, or slain.

🔥 My Reflection
I struggle with the phrase “too sacred to share.” Sacred, yes. But if Jesus Christ has personally appeared, touched, spoken, or healed, is that not the very thing we most need to declare? When I read the testimonies of Afshin (a former Muslim who encountered Jesus) or countless others around the world who openly describe seeing Christ, I ask: why not us? Why silence in the very place we expect witnesses—the Apostolic quorum of our church?

And then I feel pierced: perhaps I am too content with vague affirmations, too easily satisfied with secondhand witnesses, when the scriptures themselves invite me to know Him directly. Jesus is “the same yesterday, today, and forever.” He has not stopped showing Himself to His people. The question is whether I believe Him enough to seek until I find.

🕊️ The Invitation

• Read 1 Nephi 1 slowly. Notice how Lehi describes his vision of God, Christ, angels, and a book. Ask: why did he record this? Why was it meant for me?

• Pray:
  “Lord Jesus, I long to know You—not just about You. Tear out of me the old miser of self, pride, fear, and unbelief. Give me courage to seek You face to face, and boldness to witness of You, whatever it costs.”

• Refuse vague religion. Hunger for the fulness. Christ is the fulness.

 

🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.
Previous: Post #38 — The Good Shepherd
Next: Post #40 — (coming soon)