"What Will It be Like When Christ is Actually Walking Towards Me?"

 "What Will It be Like When Christ is Actually Walking Towards Me?"

March 2, 2022

Today when I was doing my shift at the Temple, I did a 30-minute assignment where I stood as a greeter.  On the wall straight in front of me, was a beautiful life-size painting of Jesus.  It looked so real.  It was as if He were looking at me, stretching His hand out to me, and starting to walk towards me.  I thought then, “What will it be like when the Savior is actually walking toward me?  How will I react?  What will I do?”  Later in the day I was doing homework and one of my assignments was to read in 3 Nephi, choose an event from those chapters, and apply the scripture study method of "visualization".  After having that powerful experience at the temple, it was easy for me to choose an event from Christ’s visit to the Nephites and visualize it.  I love the description of the people in 3 Nephi 11 when Christ first appeared to them.  Jesus stretched his hand toward them and told them that He was Jesus Christ.  When the people realized who he was, “the whole multitude fell to the earth” (vs. 12).  Later, after having – one by one - felt the prints of the nails in His hands and His feet, “they did cry out with one accord, saying, ‘Hosanna!  Blessed be the name of the Most High God!  And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him’” (vs. 16, 17).   That visualization added to my earlier experience today.  I feel like I now know a little better what it will be like when Christ is actually walking toward me, and what I will do.  I’m looking forward to that day!