"And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the Most High God;
And the glory of the Lord shall be there, and the terror of the Lord also shall be there, insomuch that the wicked will not come unto it, and it shall be called Zion."
Doctrine and Covenants 45:66-67
This is such an interesting idea, about the glory of the Lord being percieved differently by different people, so that it can be both a peaceful refuge and a terror (verses 70 and 74 also talk about the inhabitants of Zion, and the Lord being terrible, at least to them).
We could speculate about why that would be, but I think the central idea is true even now. What God offers, not everyone wants... and even though that is hard to understand, when he offers us all that he has, that's part of what this life is about, and God offers everyone the choice. God seems beautiful to me, but he might look terrible to someone else.
Today, let's look upon God and his gospel with pleasure rather than terror. Let's learn all we can about Christ and get to know his ways and his path. It's up to us whether to walk that path, and to decide for ourselves about whether we will choose to serve the Lord. Let's understand what we are choosing, and see the refuge and the peace behind the perhaps self-conjured illusion of terror. :)
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