✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 40 ✨ All Is Vain

✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 40 ✨
All Is Vain

📝 Their Message (Summary)
A common explanation for why modern Apostles do not openly share visions, dreams, or direct encounters with Christ is this: “The members aren’t ready. It would damn us if they revealed too much.”

But that logic is troubling. If the church is truly unprepared for open testimony of angels and the Lord, then how can we speak so lightly of Zion or the Second Coming? Moroni was blunt: if angels and miracles cease, it is because of unbelief — “and all is vain” (Moroni 7:37–38). Angels are not symbolic; their ministry is to call to repentance and to fulfill God’s covenants (Moroni 7:31).

Joseph Smith taught that priesthood is defined by relationship with God, not by gender or office. The Aaronic priesthood is association with angels; the Melchizedek, with Christ and the Father. If angels do not literally minister to you, how can you claim to hold the higher? (D&C 107, Lectures on Faith 6).

This is why it’s concerning when Elder Holland taught that “angels” are most often good people doing kind things. That may be true in a limited sense — but if that becomes our substitute for heavenly messengers, we are in unbelief. And if we excuse our lack of testimony by “leaning on” another’s faith (Holland, Lord, I Believe), we are warned by Jeremiah: “Cursed is the man that trusteth in man…and blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD” (Jer. 17:5,7).

Lehi himself once followed “a man in a white robe” — and was led into a dark and dreary waste (1 Nephi 8:5–7). Only after crying to God in the darkness did light return. The warning is clear: do not trust in the arm of flesh, however impressive it appears.

🔥 My Reflection
This post presses me into the heart of the matter: Do I know of a surety that Jesus knows my name, that He has redeemed me, that I stand accepted in His presence? If I do not, then my prayers must become relentless. It is not enough to hear “stay in the boat.” It is not enough to lean on borrowed light. Zion is not made of secondhand witnesses.

When I read Lectures on Faith, I am reminded: unless we have actual knowledge that our course pleases God, we will faint. Only when we wrestle like Adam, Eve, Jacob, or Enos — refusing to rise until God blesses us — will angels be sent. Only then will the journey from the Fall back to His presence truly begin.

🕊️ The Invitation

• Read Moroni 7:35–38. Ask: has unbelief stopped me from expecting angels?

• Pray with urgency:
  “Lord, do not let me settle for shadows. Send Your angels. Reveal to me Your Son. Strip me of leaning on the arm of flesh until I lean only on You.”

• Begin asking and do not stop asking until He answers.

 

🔗 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 #39 — Apostolic Witness: Too Sacred to Share?
Next: Post #41 — (coming soon)

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