When Korihor insisted to be given a sign before he could believe, Alma caused him to be struck dumb. To him the prophet Alma testified, “All things denote there is a God yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator.” 2 Korihor the anti-Christ fell for such deception, disbelieving the existence of God and the coming of Christ. Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Spirit of the Lord affirms, “And again, I will give unto you a pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived for Satan is abroad in the land, and he goeth forth deceiving the nations.” 1

Whenever we care to notice, we see that Heavenly Father has given us sufficient witnesses of truth to govern our lives so we will know Him and have the blessings of peace and joy.

I am reminded of this every time I take a flight from Africa to come to general conference, resetting the body clock backward by 10 hours in one day. It is an absolute truth of our human existence that we cannot negotiate around according to our own desires and get away with it. When we don’t, we are unsettled, and things do not work as we expect.ĭay and night is one example of patterns that God has given to everyone who has ever lived on the earth, of things as they really are. When we respect and align what we do with these eternal realities, we experience internal peace and harmony.

This timeless constancy of the onset of day and night is one daily reminder of realities that govern our lives that we cannot change. The other three children and seven grandchildren in Africa, and the other half of the world, saw darkness gradually creep upon them as the sun sank over the horizon in the west. This morning our two children and three grandchildren in North America, and about half of the world, saw the brightness of the sun rising majestically in the east.

Truths last horizon