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Becoming Light
Becoming Light
March 30, 2019
Todd McLauchlin
Law is light. It is not a metaphor. It is a metaphysical reality. So laws are real. They are physical. And so if we live a law we possess the light of that law. If we want to keep a law, we must come into possession of the light.

Because we are beings of light we are, to one degree or another, a living manifestation of law. We are the law to the degree that we possess light. This is why Christ IS the law. He possess all light and therefore all laws are subject to him – because he is the law itself.

What happens when we break a law? We act against it if it is in us, or if it is being offered we resist it. If we deny or resist light we become divested of it. This is why the revelation explains, “And that wicked one cometh and taketh away light and truth, through disobedience” (D&C 93:39).

So, how do we keep a commandment? How do we keep a law? We become possessors of light.

I have to ask myself, what laws do I struggle keeping? Where is my obedience lacking? And when the questions are asked it is natural for me to try to keep commandments by discipline without receiving the light. For example, if I overeat or am gluttonous (which I often am), and I try to keep the commandment to deny myself, I can exert a lot of energy to discipline my flesh to “keep a commandment.” But is it possible to keep something in form, but not in spirit? Absolutely.

We can possess the form of godliness, but deny the power thereof. This is, perhaps, a definition of hypocrisy. Acting out a form without possessing the light.

How do I change? How do I keep a law that exists at a higher level of light that I know possess? First, it is important to realize that you cannot by taking thought increase your own light by your own power.

It must come from God. By his grace, he gives you light above the level that you now possess it. It must be gifted. It must be infused.

If we struggle with disobedience, or habits, or addictions, or weakness. We must learn how to come to a Christ that we can receive and possess the light of the law that we need to keep.

Instead of trying to fight overeating by my own discipline, I ask the Lord to give me the light associated with that law so it is part of my nature. And if it is part of your nature it will come to you naturally. You don’t have to fight. It becomes who you are.
So, how do we become possessors of greater light? How do we become possessors of the law?
For starters, we make a choice that we will yield to light in all of its forms. We choose obedience in the sense that we will yield to every prompting and invitation to light.
We can also pray with all the energy of heart to be filled with love. Which is light. We can go to God and ask him to fill us with his light. And then we make the sacrifice of rejecting every form of darkness offered to us.
If we make the choice every day to single-mindedly yield to light at whatever sacrifice, the Lord will expedite the transformation of our natures at a supernatural pace.
And we, too, can become possessors of a fullness of law. We can become possessors of the fullness of the light of Christ.

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