Waxing Strong

To be increasingly determined or committed.¹ The verb wax means to “grow bigger or greater” and comes from the Old English word weaxan, “to increase, grow,” and stems from the Proto-Germanic wahsan that has given us the German wachsen (to grow), and the Old Dutch wassen.² For example, a waxing moon is one that is getting visibly larger each night; the light reflected on the surface of the moon is increasing. A waning moon is one that the percentage of the illuminated surface is decreasing. This archaic word appears 66 times in the Old and New Covenants and 12 times in the Teachings and Commandments, but was updated 35 times in Covenant of Christ.