Light for the Nations

Israel, a Light to the Nations | ICEJ International

Learning to teach as the Savior taught is another way we can rise and shine. Allow me to read from the cover of the new teaching manual: My dear brothers and sisters, we should not and must not hide our light.

Our Savior commanded us to let our light shine like a city on a hill or like a light from a candlestick. As we do so, we will glorify our Father in Heaven.

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I often wonder how I would have felt hearing the Savior Himself when He said the following in the Sermon on the Mount: In , in a message similar to that given in the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord declared the following through the Prophet Joseph Smith: A corrupt, intrigue-filled institution needing to be purified? Amid these questions, it seems fitting to consider what the last Ecumenical Council of the Church the highest teaching authority of the Church , the Second Vatican Council had to say on the matter.

At a time when the bishops of Germany are saying one thing, the bishops of Africa another, conservative Catholics one thing, liberal Catholics another, where is our unity? The second thing we can say is that it identifies the light it wishes to shed with… Christ. This is the point: These words can seem almost shocking.

Christ is the Light of the Nations

The Church has come to be seen as something very different from Christ himself. Still, when the Church lives her life, when she carries out her mission and ministry, when she worships and when she performs works out of love for others, she does bring light into the world — she does bring Christ to the world. We know this, in fact.

Yet that is not the end of the story. Even Jesus himself said: Among its many uses in the Bible, light is presented as a metaphor for truth.

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Divine light reveals eternal realities, the way things really are, since our spiritual understanding is often veiled Psalm In His covenants with Israel, God reveals His personality. We see His grace and faithfulness, as well as His holiness and justice. This is summed up in one powerful passage in Exodus in which God describes His own attributes to Moses on Mt.

Through the revelation at Sinai, we understand He is the awesome Creator, and yet He does not want to stay out there in eternity forever.