"And he shall utter his voice out of Zion, and he shall speak from Jerusalem, and his voice shall be heard among all people;
And it shall be a voice as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder, which shall break down the mountains, and the valleys shall not be found.
He shall command the great deep, and it shall be driven back into the north countries, and the islands shall become one land;
And the land of Jerusalem and the land of Zion shall be turned back into their own place, and the earth shall be like as it was in the days before it was divided.
And the Lord, even the Savior, shall stand in the midst of his people, and shall reign over all flesh."
Doctrine and Covenants 133:21-25
I like the image here of a voice breaking down mountains, filling in the valleys, commanding the oceans, and joining the land. It seems like kind of a reversal of the change after the tower of Babel... instead of dividing the lands and the people, everthing will come together again, united and whole under Christ.
God doesn't only do that for geography, but for us. We are often internally divided and torn, both because we feel distance from God, but also because gaining our bodies has presented us with some internal conflict and the need to make decisions about what is the most important to us, and as we learn through those choices, we either become more divided or more whole. God helps us to get all the parts of ourselves on the same page... the page with him on it as well. Sin can pull us away, so today let's work on repentance and wholeness, joining with God in his effort to help everyone heal.
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