VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE
Created in the
Image of God
Prayerfully
study this material and seek to know what to share. How will understanding “The
Family: A Proclamation to the World” increase your faith in God and bless those
you watch over through visiting teaching? For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.
Faith, Family,
Relief
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness. …
“So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them” (Genesis 1:26–27).
God
is our Heavenly Father, and He created us in His image. Of this truth, President
Thomas S. Monson said:
“God our Father has ears with which to hear our prayers. He has eyes with which
to see our actions. He has a mouth with which to speak to us. He has a heart
with which to feel compassion and love. He is real. He is living. We are his
children made in his image. We look like him and he looks like us.”1
“Latter-day
Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense; they
consider every person divine in origin, nature, and potential.”2 Each is “a beloved spirit son or
daughter of heavenly parents.”3
“[The
Prophet] Joseph
Smith also learned
that God desires that His children receive the same kind of exalted existence
of which He partakes.”4 As God said, “For behold, this is my
work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39).
Additional
Scriptures
From the Scriptures
The
brother of Jared in the Book
of Mormon sought for a
way to light the eight barges designed to carry the Jaredites across the waters
to the promised land. He “did molten out of a rock sixteen small stones” and
prayed that God would “touch these stones” with His finger “that they may shine
forth in darkness.” And God “stretched forth his hand and touched the stones
one by one.” The veil was taken from the eyes of the brother of Jared, and “he
saw the finger of the Lord; and it was as the finger of a man. …
“And
the Lord said unto him: Believest thou the words which I shall speak?
“And
he answered: Yea, Lord.”
And
“the Lord showed himself unto [the brother of Jared]” and said, “Seest thou
that ye are created after mine own image? Yea, even all men were created in the
beginning after mine own image.” (See Ether 3:1–17.)
Consider This
How
does knowing that each person is created in God’s image help us in our
association with others?
“In Who’s
Image”
cji
3/1/16
Fail not
to understand
who’s
image created
we’re in
our Father’s
and
His Only
Begotten Son
created
to look like them
and if
worthy to become
for as
the Father and Son
we too
can become
repeated
in the Scriptures
one
cannot deny this truth
by
failing to understand!
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