“Grow in the Knowledge of the Glory of Him”
Repentance, the remission of sins, and steadfastness are the prerequisites identified by King Benjamin for obtaining a knowledge of God. Peter, having listed attributes of godliness, said: “If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:8). Alma taught that the mysteries of God were granted according to our “heed and diligence” (Alma 12:9-10). Joseph Smith, teaching the same principle, used the phrase “diligence and obedience” (D&C 130:19). In each instance the principle is the same we can know God only to the extent that we seek to live his commandments and be like him. Thus the Savior testified: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).
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