Eye of Faith

But behold, verily, verily, I say unto you that mine eyes are upon you. I am in your midst and ye cannot see me. Doctrine & Covenants 38:7

Our God is not, as the deists proclaimed, the divine watchmaker who winds up the universe and lets it run down on its own. He is not a distant Deity, nor is he an absentee God. He is close to his people, as close as they will allow him to be. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that the disembodied spirits of the just are not far from us, and so it is with him who is the Lord of the living and the dead (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 326). We may see him now only with the eye of faith, but the day is coming when we will see him even as he now sees us. This sobering reality ought to affect our speech, our actions, and our attitudes, for we know full well that we live and move and have our being in the midst of those charged to look after us and oversee the work of God’s kingdom. (Robert L. Millet and Lloyd D. Newell. Draw Near Unto Me: Daily Reflections on the Doctrine and Covenants. 101)