“When He Shall Appear We Shall Be Like Him”

See 1 John 3:1-2. We speak much in the Church about one day being with our Heavenly Father. The only way we can qualify to do that is to be transformed by the blood of Christ through that healing medium we know as the Holy Ghost, so that we truly become the sons and daughters of Jesus Christ. Then we shall be like him, and shall dwell with him in comfort and with confidence. Of that glorious day the Psalmist wrote: As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness“ (Psalms 17:15).”

“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:

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 4

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