John 14:18

I was sitting in Relief Society yesterday, talking about one of my favorite things, Our Savior. Our teacher kept referring to a talk by Jeffery R. Holland from the April 2009 Conference "None were with Him." [Wonderful talk, most definitely recommend checking it out!] I referred to my little "church journal" to see what notes I had taken on this talk and what impressions, if any, I could share. I saw written at the top, almost as an after thought since it wasn't really in the flow of my normal notes, John 14:18. With nothing else written around it, I looked it up to see why I had written it down in the first place. In the King James Version of the Bible, it reads:

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

What an amazing thought! We will never be left alone, comfortless. We will always have someone there; Christ will come to us. What really intrigued me though was following further the actual words, particularly, comfortless. Again the LDS King James version of the Bible [which I will usually refer to, just to let you know !] has a footnote for that particular word. The footnote read "Greek: Orphans." So, if you interchange those two, "I will not leave you orphans."

Now to me that is an amazing thought! When I picture an orphan I picture a small, poor child, so alone, with no family, no one at all, struggling. Granted I take on the stereotypical 1800's English orphan but that's my first mental image. And Christ will never leave us as orphans, ever. We will always have someone, Him. We will always have a family, wonderful Heavenly Parents, and a loving Elder Brother.

In a world where families are torn apart, unknown and constantly changing, it's such a comfort to now we will never be alone, we will never be orphans and we will never be comfortless.