There are special blessings available only to those who live in full alignment with God.1 Sanctification increases the quality and quantity of blessings to which you have access. All good comes from and leads to God, and the concentration of its value increases as you draw nearer to him. The bandwidth of wisdom, blessings, and power from God available to you is determined not just by whether you are aligned, but by the level of knowledge about God that you are aligned to. As you learn more about him while remaining aligned with him, the amount of good he can send into your life increases.2 It is through people who align with God and increase the bandwidth of their connection to him that God establishes his kingdom on earth.3 Most of the blessings we read about in the scriptures are among those reserved for those who live in full alignment with God. It is because very few Christians live in alignment with God that so few scriptural blessings are available in the lives of many Christians.
When you are aligned with God, or justified, you open the maximal conduit of wisdom, blessings, and power from God available to you.4
You enjoy unparalleled peace.5 You can stand in the presence of God.6 You are sustained by God without any impedance.7 Nothing good is withheld from you.8
Falling out of alignment with what you understand God to be like disqualifies you from further revelation of how he is,9 and will also result in the loss of the grace you have received until now.10 Each way in which you think, feel, or act less than the best you know creates impedance between you and God.11 Every difference between how you are and how you believe God to be creates an obstruction in the flow of God’s goodness to and through you.
Footnotes
- 1. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light (Matthew 6:22) Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. (Psalms 119:1) ↩
- 2. The Lord loves righteousness and justice; when these are in place, God’s love flows unimpeded to fill the earth. (Psalm 33:5, Author’s Reflection) ↩
- 3. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. (Isaiah 9:7) The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. (Isaiah 33:5) ↩
- 4. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light (Matthew 6:22) ↩
- 5. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. (Psalms 37:37) Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27) ↩
- 6. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. (Psalm 15:1-2) Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven (D&C 121:45) ↩
- 7. Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved, But he who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall. (Proverbs 28:18, NKJV) The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. (Isaiah 33:14-16) ↩
- 8. For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. (Psalms 84:11) ↩
- 9. For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do. (2 Nephi 25:23) ↩
- 10. ...But there is a possibility that man may fall from grace and depart from the living God; (D&C 20:31-32) And now, verily I say unto you, I, the Lord, will not lay any sin to your charge; go your ways and sin no more; but unto that soul who sinneth shall the former sins return, saith the Lord your God (D&C 82:7) ↩
- 11. For I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance; (D&C 1:31) ↩