A couple of months ago I found a scripture which has quickly become one of my favorites. D&C 88:67 "And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things." I have pondered on this scripture almost every day since I found it.
Several days ago I asked myself what darkness was. The bible dictionary says it's symbolical of spiritual blindness or ignorance and of separation from God. I came up with lots of things that I would consider lead us to that spiritual blindness and that keep us from feeling the spirit, thus separating us from God: hate, fear, envy, jealousy, anger, distrust, lack of faith, discouragement, uncertainty, embarrassment, pride, insecurity, lust, lack of control, prejudice, self-consciousness, sin, etc. I know that whenever I have these kinds of emotions, I'm not in tune with the spirit and it's hard to feel God's presence in my life.
I don't ever want to have these feelings of darkness again. I don't imagine anyone enjoys feeling such negative emotions but according to this scripture if our eye is single to the glory of God, our whole body shall be filled with light and there won't be any darkness in us.
So what is the glory of God? The bible dictionary says the Glory of the Lord "...sometimes denotes the fullness of the majesty of God...; in other places it denotes some outward and visible manifestation of the Divine presence." Literally this may mean that if you actually saw Him you would see His glory. But since most of us haven't had that privilege, we can see his glory in this beautiful world that He created for us and this wonderful plan of happiness he has given us. We can live so we can feel His Spirit with us every day by communicating with Him in prayer every day and keeping a prayer in our hearts constantly and obeying His commandments.
Another scripture D&C 93:36 says "The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth." Also Moses 1:39 "For behold, this is my work and my glory--to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." These scriptures give me a lot to think about. I believe God wants us to continue to learn and seek light and truth. We are His children and he loves us. He wants every one of us to have eternal life, which is the kind of life He enjoys. And he has given us the Holy Ghost so that "we can know the truth of all things." (Moroni 10:5) We need not be led astray by the philosophies of man.
It's interesting to me that the first and greatest commandment we have been given is to "love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." (See Matthew 22:36-38) If we love the Lord in this way, then we will want to have a deep, abiding relationship with Him. We will want to keep His commandments. We won't want to do anything that would hurt that relationship or cause a separation from Him (darkness). And then in return, He blesses us with peace and joy and complete happiness, in other words "light." And with that light comes intelligence (light and truth) and the ability to comprehend all things.
