I want to share an experience I had. I was listening to the song “I Can Only Imagine” by Mercy Me, and was reminded of what the Lord showed me in a dream when I was younger.

I’m going to preface this by saying this is how the Lord showed me what I asked for and in no way indicates that this is exactly how it was.

I remember praying to the Lord that He would give me some additional understanding of Jesus and His suffering on the cross.

That night I had the following dream.

In the dream, I was standing on the edge of a wheat field. The field was so vast that I could not see where it ended. But what I could see off in the distance was a man walking toward me. At some point in his walk, I realized it was Jesus and that He was coming to see me. Honestly, it seemed like forever as He walked towards me, and that gave me time to reflect and wonder what I should do when He got there.

Finally, the time came when He met me. At that point, I was still wondering what I should do. And then I remembered 3 Nephi 17:19: “And Nephi arose and went forth, and bowed himself before the Lord and did kiss his feet.” So that is what I did, I knelt down and rested my head on His feet. 

Jesus then spoke to me and said, “Open your eyes,” and I did, and what I saw were the wounds (the prints) on His feet. They were round and about the size of a quarter. I thought, “Oh, the pain He must have suffered to incur such wounds.” It was just then that I realized how He must have suffered. 

In my dream, I cried because of the pain. But then He spoke to me and said, “I did this for you.” When He said this, the pain I was imagining turned into joy. Joy that my Savior would do this for me. 

3 Nephi 11:13-14 tells us, “And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto them saying: Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth and have been slain for the sins of the world.”

It was then that Jesus stood me on my feet and told me that when I would be ordained into his priesthood that I should preach about the wounds I saw and the pain and the joy.

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before [him] endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrew 12:2)

If we ask God, we don’t always have to imagine.

And It Came to Pass.

God Bless You.

Brother Jim Sgro