“We Shall Be Like Him”
We see from Mormon’s profound pronouncement, then, that the purpose of charity is not just to motivate us to Christian service (as important as such is), but also to sanctify its from sin and prepare us not only to be with God but also to he like him (see Ether 12:34). In Mormon’s words, those who become sons and daughters of Jesus Christ-who have applied the atoning blood of the Savior and have been born again as to the things of righteousness-are the ones upon whom the Lord bestows this gift. Bruce C. Hafen thus explained: