Found in Translation

As I was reading about the city of Enoch being taken up to the Lord, I thought about what it means to be translated. In a non-Gospel context, translating usually has to do with words. This made me think of the beginning of the Gospel of John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." When a being like Enoch or Moses or John himself is translated, they are translated into the Word. They have so fully and completely taken upon themselves the name of Christ that they have been transformed, or translated, into ones who are like God and ones who are with God. They have given themselves over so completely, their wills have been so swallowed up by the Father and they have allowed God to so fully dwell in their hearts that in all practical ways they have become like God, and would think and speak and act in the same way that God thinks or speaks or acts. The term translation has a lot more to do with the Word than at first you might think. Sometimes when translating from one language to another, it can be hard to find an exact match. But if we keep trying to become more and more like the Savior in all that we think and say and do, the translation becomes ever clearer and more exact.