He Is In the Sun
Yesterday in the late afternoon as we got in the car, my younger children marveled at the incredible sunset they saw before them. They observed the beautiful pink color spread across the sky as the sun set behind the horizon and created an amazing panorama amidst the clouds. The sun is one of the most powerful physical symbols we have on earth to remind us of the Son of God. Many scriptures connect the sun with the Savior. In modern revelation the Lord said, “As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:7). The light of the sun should remind us that He created it. In Joseph Smith’s vision of the celestial world, he said this: “These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is written of as being typical” (Doctrine and Covenants 76:70). The best analogy for the glory of the celestial world, the place whe...