The One with Thoughts from a Pearl...Who is God?

Scripture: Moses 5:16

Who is God? That is the question that Cain asked, immediately before deciding that serving Satan/himself was the better option. If we ignore the fact that Cain had parents who had literally walked and talked with God, then there are lots of people in the world today who ask this same question. Fundamentally they are all seeking a direct connection with God. Which I actually believe is a really good thing, because so much of my own belief comes from my direct connection with God.

However, I have met a number of people who, like Cain, go about it in all of the wrong ways. There are numerous ways to go about developing a personal connection with God that can all be described as “wrong”. Mostly those ways involve things like “loving Satan [/yourself]” more than God, as opposed to correct methods which involve things that are more like prayer.

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    There are lots of places to find God, but only one way to develop an actual deep relationship with God. You have to talk with HIM. It is incredibly hard to develop a relationship with someone that you never talk, never spend time with, and never try to get to know in a personal way. The hardest possible way to get to know God would be to seek after self and Satan. But far too often we let ourselves and others get in the way, we come up with lots of feeble reasons to not. We tell ourselves that we cannot know God, and that it is an impossible endeavor to try and know him. But the one thing that we have to keep in mind is that HE always wants to know US. He is doing everything in his power to convince us that we should also reach out to Him, his love, and the power of his Atonement.