“The Book of Mormon has much to say about
earthly and heavenly treasures, in the same sense in which the newly found
apocrypha do. Of course, the image is also found in the New Testament.
“The Book of Mormon prophets explain many
references to heavenly treasures in the Bible. Helaman is fondest of treasures:
“And even at this time, instead of laying up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where nothing doth corrupt….ye are heaping up for yourselves wrath
against the day of judgment” (Helaman 8:25).
“This is the correct concept of what is meant
by a treasure, it is a very common idea in the early apocrypha. We find in the many
treasure passages that the treasure is the wisdom and knowledge we left behind
us when we came down to this earth. In the premortal existence, we left our
treasure in God’s treasury, in His keeping.
“There it is, and by our good works here we can
add to it; more will be waiting for us when we go back….In the Jewish
apocrypha, God orders, by his word, the lights in the heavenly height, and by
the utterance of His mouth He opens the treasury, where the righteous have a
store of good works preserved…..everything we add to our credit is being preserved
in God’s treasury.”
-
Hugh
Nibley, Temple and Cosmos, p 232-3
Your truth pierces my soul
And binds me to Your loving heart.
Your teaching moments
Find my hungry mind
And feed me like a bird in flight
Searching for a morsel
That gladdens its hungry heart.
Your mysteries are laid at my feet
And I, I come to you Father
Clutching these treasures
that are mine to keep.
- CATHRYEN ALLEN
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