And now, how much more cursed is he that knoweth the will of God and doeth it not, than he that only believeth, or only hath cause to believe, and falleth into transgression?
Why do we not have more plain personal revelation and open vision? Because we are not sufficiently dedicated and determined to obey. Knowledge is a curse if we do not abide by it. The Lord does not tell us more because he cannot trust us to respond in the right way to what we might learn. Better to leave us ignorant and subject to mercy than to make us knowledgeable and condemned by the law we cannot keep.
Ignorance is not good, however. We are not rewarded for being ignorant. We are rewarded for acting on the knowledge we have. The more knowledge we gain, the greater our potential for doing good. Without knowledge, we are damned, meaning stopped in our progress. Our goal is to act faithfully so we can qualify for more knowledge, which increases our righteous actions and prepares us for the next level of knowledge. And so it goes in an upward reaching and ever-broadening cycle of growth.
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