Sparkle Forth with Glory

Reading:   Lectures on Faith: Lecture Seventh 1-10

The lectures on Faith were classes of instruction given "... On the Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, originally delivered before a Class of the Elders, in Kirtland, Ohio."

Faith is the framework by which all creation has been, is, and will be formed.  That very same power, used as in instrument in creation, is a power that I, we, must also wield in our progression from tabernacles of clay to masters of all.

LECTURE SEVENTH (5)

5.  It is only necessary for us to say that the whole visible creation, as it now exists, is the effect of faith. It was faith by which it was framed, and it is by the power of faith that it continues in its organized form, and by which the planets move round their orbits and sparkle forth their glory. So, then, faith is truly the first principle in the science of THEOLOGY, and when understood, leads the mind back to the beginning, and carries it forward to the end; or, in other words, from eternity to eternity. 

Faith is the first principle of power and as such it must be part of the creation process from beginning to end, or, as the brethren put it, "...from eternity to eternity."  God is the object by which faith flourishes and by which faith gains its power.  So, then, if I believe in the idea that I too can be like God and God once was as I am, the power of faith truly does become the first principle in the science of Theology as well. 

Let me explain; if God was as I now am it stands to reason that He too had to learn about faith, what it is, how it is, why it is, and the object by which it proceeds.  He too, then, had an object by which the power of faith sprang forth, a God figure to exemplify the characteristics and attributes of faith.  He learned to wield faith in all His endeavors from finding lost keys to moving mountains.  He succeeded in His probationary state and progressed in glories I can only fathom.  Through His progression and eventual rise to Godhood, He relied upon and used the power of faith culminating in the production of His own creation, the universe, our home; but gained the power, the force, to achieve His creation by exercising his faith while in a probationary realm - stands to reason, right? 

Just saying...

~Kipling