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The purpose of this life is for us as sons and daughters of God to be proved herewith to see if we "will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them" (Abraham 3:25), to become one also as the Father and the Son are one, and to be "made perfect in one" (see John 17:22-23). To reach our divine potential and continue faithful and complete our mission to become one in Christ (see Galatians 3:27-28), we must first know who we are.  In a 2022 worldwide devotional for young adults, President Russell M. Nelson stressed 3 fundamental truths that would set them and us on the right course of becoming. Of these 3 truths, the first was to know the truth about who you are. President Nelson emphasized that knowing who you are, a literal child of God, and embracing this truth will help us, with help from our Heavenly Father, reach our ultimate goal of reaching our divine potential to become as He is.  In the last few verses of Luke 22 we receive a beautiful examp...

Prior to sharing a number of the sign of the times which will be fulfilled before His Second Coming in Luke 21, Jesus points out to his disciples a certain poor widow who of her poverty, "cast in all the living that she had" (see Luke 21:4). In Matthew, in the chapter prior to the Savior's teachings of these signs, Jesus points out the wickedness and hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees (see Matthew 23). In pondering on these two vastly different people, I find that what the Savior is teaching is the same.  When speaking to the blind Pharisees, he tells them to "cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also" (see Matthew 23:26). These Pharisees in some ways could be likened to the rich, who cast in of their abundance (see Luke 21:4).  In Mark 12, what Jesus says to His disciples is worded a bit different than what is written in Luke, "for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did ...