Brighter And Brighter

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 3:18). When Moses came down from Mount Sinai after speaking with the Lord face to face, his face glowed with the glory of God so brightly that he had to wear a veil over his head to dim the light radiating from his face. The more we turn towards the Lord and try to focus on His glory, the more light we will receive from His countenance. And the more light and glory we receive, the more like the Lord we will be in thought and manner and appearance. We are created in God’s image, we are commanded to learn of Him and to be like Him, and we are promised eternal life as we truly come to know God, the Eternal Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ. Paul said in his first epistle to the Corinthians that we now see through a glass darkly, but here he says that if we turn to the Lord with an open face we can behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord. In C.S. Lewis’s novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader they sail into the utter east, towards Aslan’s country and the water they sail over becomes remarkably clear and bright. When they taste the water it is no longer salty but sweet, and they conclude that it is much stronger than water but is actually drinkable light, and all aboard the ship drink this drinkable light and as they journey ever eastward the light gets brighter and brighter, but they are more able to bear it. “They could look straight up at the sun without blinking. They could see more light than they had ever seen before.” The more that we seek out the Lord and attempt to behold His glory, the more we drink of the living waters of the Spirit, the more and more are we filled with His light and glory, and then the more we are capable of perceiving and receiving that light, and the “light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day.” (D&C 50:24).