the light of revelation.

I often find myself wanting an immediate answer or set of directions from God. I want revelation to be a light switch that flips on and suddenly everything is clear.

I've had "ah ha" moments that feel like that, when a sudden realization occurs and things come into focus. However, I think for most of us and in most cases the revelation is something more gradual.

When the sun rises the sky steadily lightens until the sun appears and everything is increasingly illuminated; it's gradual and the change is basically imperceptible.

Another parallel that a General Authority made a few conferences ago was about some gold prospectors.  A new prospector was working alongside a successful prospector. Most people had given up on the area and moved on or given up all together. The new prospector became frustrated that he wasn't finding nuggets. He asked the successful, seasoned prospector where he was finding all his gold. He revealed that he was gradually filling his bag with small flakes that were in the stream's water. His bag had become full with thousands and thousands of flakes as opposed to nuggets.

Our answers and revelations are similar. We get pieces gradually and sometimes we're even surprised to find our bag full of gold. We realize that the light of day is making things clear.

Anyway. Just something I was thinking about recently.