“I Pray the God of My Salvation That He View Me with His All–searching Eye”
Jacob’s heart was pure, his desires for righteousness were genuine, and he knew it. He had confidence that God knew it. He had no secrets from the Lord—his soul was as an open book. Jacob possessed perfect faith; he had total and complete confidence in the God of his salvation and the assurance that the course he had pursued was pleasing to that God.
In a revelation given to the Saints in this dispensation, the Lord declared: “Verily I say unto you, all among them [members of the Church] who know their hearts are honest, and are broken, and their spirits contrite, and are willing to observe their covenants by sacrifice—yea, every sacrifice which I, the Lord, shall command—they me accepted of me” (D&C 97:8; cf. Lectures on Faith No. 6). Such can rejoice that God has seen their works.