Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cover image via ‘Scripture Study for LDS Families’. What two symbolic instruments represent the secure means back to the presence of God? Neither symbolizes the Church, nor the Holy Spirit, nor the commandments, as important as each is, none of them stand as anchor symbols in holy writ. We might say they are essential but not sufficient. Though each of us is given the Holy Ghost as a gift at the time of covenant-entrance onto the strait path, this essential gift is a still, small voice. It is sufficiently still, and small as to be accessible to only those willing to pay the price. Joseph Smith said that we may learn to recognize and understand it by “growing into the principle of revelation.[i] It is during this growing phase that we are subject to uncertainty and self-deception that leaves many wondering if they will ever know for certain.[ii] Therefore, in His mercy, God has given us both the iron rod and the Liahona as symbols of the same tool by which we can find our way home; the one anchor by which we avoid deception[iii]; the conduit by which we learn the … Continue reading Unlocking the Liahona