Savior, Redeemer, Advocate, and more

This is one of my favorite pictures of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  He is resurrected and being glorified.  I love it.  Today I was writing to my children about the Savior.  I was using the words we use to describe him: Redeemer, Savior, Light of the World, Prince of Peace.  As I wrote these words, I thought of what He has meant in my life.  He has saved me from my sins, from my short comings, from my weaknesses.  He has Redeemed my soul from spiritual death.  My joy is in his redeeming power to rescue me from the world, the evils of the world.  He has given me Light in my life.  I feel that through his Light I have the way illuminated before me.  I need not fear darkness, uncertainty or questions.  Peace, I love and cherish the Peace that can come through Jesus Christ.  I have felt his peace calm my worries and concerns.  Calm my fears.  I have felt such peace amidst trials that it is a gift I truly seek and treasure in difficult times.

There is a scripture in the Book of Mormon that I love.  Jesus Christ appears to the people on this continent after His resurrection.  He teaches them, he blesses them, and then he does this.

15 And when he had said these words, he himself also knelt upon the earth; and behold he prayed unto the Father, and the things which he prayed cannot be written, and the multitude did bear record who heard him.

 16 And after this manner do they bear record: The eye hath never seen, neither hath the ear heard, before, so great and marvelous things as we saw and heard Jesus speak unto the Father;

 17 And no tongue can speak, neither can there be written by any man, neither can the hearts of men conceive so great and marvelous things as we both saw and heard Jesus speak; and no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard him pray for us unto the Father.

Whenever I read this I wondered what the Savior prayed.  The people people couldn't even describe it.  But at the end it says, "no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard him pray for us unto the Father."  For me, here is the Savior of the World, praying for THEM.  He is our advocate with the father.

I know He lives.  I know He is all those things to me, my savior, my redeemer, my source of light, my source of peace.  I am so grateful that He cares about ME.  That He knows me.  That He loves me.  Because of what I know, I know He loves YOU.  I know He knows you.  He cares about you.  He is there for you.

May we all look to Him is my humble prayer and wish.