The Reverence and Humility Needed for Personal Revelation
Blog Number: 12
Author: Kelly L. Call
As I returned from my temple shift today, I have been humbled with the insights and understandings that the Lord has given me. I think it’s time for me to make a new blog post #12.
I struggle to summarize the dynamic journey of the past from May 5 until today, May 16, 2025. So much has happened, I’ve learned so much about the power and operational function of reverence and humility and how it lays the foundation for receiving personal revelation and recognizing, acknowledging, and sustaining our divine identity with humility and reverence.
These principles of humility and reverence are the exact opposite of pride, egotism, grandiosity, and a conflated self-concept. The instruction Moroni gives as he teaches us to receive personal revelation in Moroni 10:3 is: “Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.”
Doing this engenders both gratitude and a reverential attitude and state of being which is proper for us as we approach the divine exalted throne of the ruler of the universe and Father of our eternal souls.
We are instructed in the temple endowment that quiet reverence should prevail in the house of the Lord. Considering that the Lord’s house is where we go to have a personal one-on-one experience with our Heavenly Father and to learn directly from Him who knows each of us best and holds each of us in perfect holy reverential regard. To receive this personal revelation, we need to have the proper reverential frame.
Secondly, we need to be still and know that He is God. If our minds and souls are so busy that there is no room for the Holy Ghost to get a word in edgewise, there is no place for receiving additional insight and understanding. This is where meekness is paramount as we seek guidance and direction from God.
A significant part of having a reverential state of being and orientation frame is to understand what it means to hold space for ourselves and others to be exactly as we are with all of our unique strengths, unique limitations and all. We are invited to God’s cosmic come as you are party, The party rules are that we reverence our uniqueness and acknowledge that the unique developmental path that we each walk is also unique. God wants us to sustain and uphold each other in this process not tear ourselves or others down.
Self deprecation and self criticisms are just as offensive to the universal love of God as when we inflict them on others. We are sacred children of God too. How are we treating ourselves? How we treat ourselves becomes the pattern for how we treat others, it just can’t be helped, We emanate the level of reverential regard we have developed and it manifests in all our relationships. If we think we can have one standard for ourselves and another standard for other people we deceive ourselves.
Clearly I have work to do!
And what if we carried this same reverence with us everywhere we go at all times? I know I don’t (especially on the freeway - in my own defense I think my wife would say I’m improving, LOL) now I have an ideal to strive for.
Holding space means leaving graceful room for ourselves and equally for others and giving permission to everyone, ourselves included, to learn experientially and make mistakes, recognizing the universal need for the grace of Jesus Christ to help us overcome these mistakes and shortcomings. Each of us is inherently immature in our understanding and comprehension in some way and in need of grace and direction—each in our own way because of our uniqueness.
It’s a blessing we all don’t have exactly the same shortcomings so that the strong may lift the weak and we can all help one another level up without hypocrisy and without guile.
This is what it means to allow the quiet reverence that should prevail in the house of the Lord. It is more than just whispering when we need to communicate to keep the noise level down. It is a spiritual state of being that prepares us to receive personal intimate revelation.
What is given by revelation is best understood by revelation. I testify that the 7 governing dynamic model I have presented in the book How to Optimize Your Emotionally Dynamic Life by Unleashing 7 Christlike Superpowers: A Christian’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Fulfillment was given by the spirit of revelation to me as I have studied, prayed, and sought to understand the universal governing human emotional and spiritual dynamics.
I commend each of you to seek your personal insights and be guided by the personal ministrations of the Holy Ghost as you seek to level up your personal reverential paradigms and self-concept.
I so pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.