I've been reading in Moses 2-4 today. It talks about the creation of the earth, creation of man, and the consequences of partaking of the fruit from the Tree of Good and Evil.
A couple months back we had a lesson in Relief Society about The Creation and the way our teacher presented it shed so much light. Now reading it has just given me an overwhelming testimony of this simple fact...we were not an accident, an experiment, or a cause and effect.
Chapter 2 explains the creation of all things, yes, which is amazing all in itself. But chapter 3...that's what really grabbed my heart and mind. Heavenly Father planned, prepared, thought, and developed everything spiritually FIRST. And then when it was "good" was it physically created.
Everything was in order...there couldn't be man before there was food for man to eat and their couldn't be water before there was land and gravity for that water to encompass.
Another ah hah moment as well as "teach by example"...I know when I sit down to, lets say to scrapbook, I don't just sit down and plop the pictures on to a page, throw some words on there and call it "good". I pick out my pictures, find paper that matches, embellishments, alphabets, ribbon, etc. Then I lay it out everyway possible before it looks absolutely perfect! THEN, and only then do I pull out the glue and permanently place things on the paper. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of times that I have plopped pictures on a page and called it "done" but NEVER "good".
I feel it is in Heavenly Father's plan for us to plan, prepare, study, think, and pray about the things that we accomplish or "do" for lack of a better word. Haste is never "good". Can you imagine our world any other way than how it is. Think of the many, many, many....years it took to call it "good". But our world WAS Heavenly Father's plan. WE were Heavenly Father's plan, and what we DO is Heavenly Father's plan.
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Very good insight!
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