“That They Might Enter into His Rest”
To enter into the rest of the Lord in this life is to be possessed of the quiet but powerful assurance that the work in which we are engaged is true: that the Lord and Savior reigns; that he has restored his holy gospel through Joseph Smith in these latter days, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the line of its duty, that it is led by true servants of the Lord, and that the God of heaven has appropriately empowered his oracles in this day to represent him. It is to know the peace of spiritual certainty and thus to be it-immune to the taunting waves of ridicule and skepticism (see Gospel Doctrine, pp. 58, 126). We qualify for the rest of God hereafter through faithful obedience, by meeting the challenges of mortality and eventually inheriting the promise of eternal life, the assurance of the fulness of the glory of the Father in the world to come (see D&C 84:24; Moroni 7:3).
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