Daily Inspiration Quote by Joseph Smith, Jr.

Comfort, in Joseph Smith's telling, is never just comfort. It's a contract.

"All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection" is aimed at people whose lives were full of tangible loss: poverty, sickness, public hostility, family rupture, the whiplash of repeated displacement. Smith doesn't merely offer a soothing afterlife idea; he turns grief into a ledger God will settle. The phrase "made up to you" is almost commercial, as if eternity is where the books finally balance. That framing matters because it dignifies suffering without requiring immediate relief. It also quietly asks followers to reinterpret present deprivation as temporary misaccounting rather than evidence of failure.

The condition hits next: "provided you continue faithful". The promise is generous, but it's not unconditional; it binds the listener to endurance, obedience, and loyalty to the movement in the here and now. In a volatile new religious community, that clause functions as social glue. It turns wavering into a spiritual risk, and it makes perseverance not just admirable but economically rational in cosmic terms.

Then comes the clincher: "By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it". Smith seals the deal with prophetic authority, collapsing doubt by shifting from doctrine to eyewitness testimony. It's a rhetorical power move: the claim isn't presented as interpretation but as reported experience. In the American revivalist marketplace of competing preachers and revelations, that insistence on vision is brand, credential, and enforcement mechanism all at once. The subtext is clear: your pain is seen, your reward is guaranteed, and your obligation is nonnegotiable.