“I Would Commend You to Seek This Jesus”
Moroni leaves his testimony with an urgent plea to all who would read his record—a plea to come unto Christ. The foundational objective of the Book of Mormon is the “convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ” (Book of Mormon title page). By commending us to seek Jesus, Moroni is urging us to come unto Christ by reading and applying the teachings of the Book of Mormon. We seek Jesus not just by being converted to him but also by partaking of his ordinances of salvation and by living his laws and being filled with the Holy Spirit. In the ultimate sense, however, Moroni is also inviting us to seek Jesus in the way that he (Moroni) had, and to come to know the Master in the most significant way. If we patiently, faithfully, and diligently seek the Savior, the time will come when we will see him, as did Moroni (see D&C 38:8; D&C 67:10; D&C 88:68; D&C 93:1). Of this Elder Bruce R. McConkie said: “As believing saints it is our privilege … to see the Lord face to face; to talk with him as a man speaketh with his friend; to have his Person attend us from time to time; and to have him manifest to us the Father … .”
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