Sunday Soundbite

Shelly Patterson taught an inspiring lesson, "The Grand Destiny of the Faithful."

The manual shares that Lorenzo Snow first received a revelation on the "pathway of God and man" in the spring of 1840, which he expressed in the following couplet:

“As man now is, God once was:

“As God now is, man may be.”

Lorenzo Snow further states, "I believe that we are the sons and daughters of God, and that He has bestowed upon us the capacity for infinite wisdom and knowledge, because He has given us a portion of Himself. We are told that we were made in His own image, and we find that there is a character of immortality in the soul of man."

Shelly emphasized that we were all born with divine potential in us, just as a baby is born with potential. We should use the knowledge that we can become "as God is" as a beacon of light to guide our lives. We should never let our potential be dimmed.

Shelly also taught that we must recognize that we are on a path toward becoming like our Father in Heaven, always progressing toward "all that the Father hath." We should never be satisfied with just having an infant's knowledge of the gospel. But as Lorenzo Snow tells us, it's really quite simple: "If we do the part that He has assigned unto us, and keep our second estate, we shall be sure to realize these promises in every particular, and more than you and I can possibly comprehend."

And just as our earthly parents cheer us on as we take those first faltering steps in babyhood, so does our Heavenly Father know and love us as His precious children and invite us to "become like Him; [to] see Him as He is; [to] behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular."