“The Fountain of All Righteousness”

George Reynolds, Janne M. Sjodahl

Jesus Christ is the Fountain of All Righteousness. Faith, Hope, and Charity, are living waters that flow therefrom. (Fountain is properly the source or springhead of waters. Metaphorically, God is called the Fountain of Living Waters. (Zechariah 13:10.)

"And when my father saw that the waters of the river emptied into the Red Sea, he spoke unto Laman, saying: O that thou mightest be like unto this river, continually running into the Fountain of All Righteousness!" (I Nephi 2:9)

"And it came to pass that I beheld that the Rod of Iron, which my father had seen, was the word of God, which led to the Fountain of Living Waters, or to the Tree of Life; which waters are a representation of the love of God; and I also beheld that the Tree of Life was a representation of the love of God." (Ether 8:26)

In this verse Christ, Himself, calls Himself, The Fountain of All Righteousness, and that Faith, Hope, and Charity, will bring the Gentiles unto Him thereby making them strong. Faith, Hope, and Charity, are Godly graces.

Faith, by some, is called an eye, even the eye of faith. By it we see things which do not appear to the natural eye. In a religious sense, faith makes real that for which we hope. We perceive that which has been promised, but not yet given. It enlarges our scope, so that the horizon of our vision is far beyond worldly concept. With it, we see within the veil. (vv. 19-21)

"Do you exercise faith in the redemption of Him Who created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?" (Alma 5:15) In this verse Alma calls Faith, an eye. So it is! The more it is used, the clearer becomes its perception. In it there is no impaired vision; no corrective measures need be taken. Alma asked the people of Zarahemla to whom he spoke: "Do you look forward with an eye of faith?" Do you, we imagine him asking, view your unworthy bodies, each with its own certain traces of death, raised to immortality and Eternal Life? The weaknesses of the flesh, and its other afflictions; those ill-omens of death and corruption, do you see them "swallowed up in everlasting and glorious victory through Christ, our Lord?" Do you see yourselves standing before God "to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?"

Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 6

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