There are people who have spent their entire lives studying things and even they don’t know it all.

It is mind blowing how much we don’t know.

I get that same feeling when I read through Moses chapter 1.

God talks about the numberless worlds He has created and inhabitants everywhere. 

Woah.

There is so much information Heavenly Father has not shared with us yet.

And I think Moses even felt slightly overwhelmed when he humbly asked the Lord why He’d created this whole plan. 

But do you know what I am grateful for?

God answers Moses’s question.

He gives Moses and us “the why.”

“For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” (Moses 1:39)

It’s for immortality and eternal life.

That’s why we are here.

That’s why we have a veil and can’t remember anything from before.

That’s why life is fantastic and also painful.

That’s why Jesus is so important.

We may not know everything, but it’s all for our immortality and eternal life.

And we can trust that He’s got a plan to help us get there.

Happy Studying!

-Cali Black

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I’ve got a lot of hopes.

Things that I would love to have happen in the future.

But Mormon is just a rockstar for pointing us in the right direction with our true hope.

Although we hope people will get better, viruses will be eradicated, others will forgive, circumstances will improve, and love will grow…

When it comes to our most essential, godly hope, we can’t look to things in this lifetime.

And think about the men who are teaching this.

Both Mormon who spoke these words, and Moroni who wrote them down years later as words he hoped would be of great worth to us.

Their hopes for improving circumstances, healing, and softened hearts were virtually unanswered.

But both Mormon and Moroni stamp their powerful testimony of where our hope should be.

We have hope that, because of Christ’s atoning sacrifice, we will be raised to eternal life in the next life as a result of our good desires and actions.

We have hope that our righteous desires and unseen acts of service will be rewarded with eternal life.

We have hope that our trials and hardships are only trials from a mortal standpoint.

We have hope that the relationships we develop here on earth do not end at death.

We have hope that we will be able to live with our Heavenly Father and our Savior.

What a truly hopeful message!

Although we may be disappointed, maybe even often, with our earthly hopes, Mormon gives us that beautiful reframe:

Our hope is in the promises given to us about what we can expect in the next life.

Happy Studying!

-Cali Black

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