Moses 2-3

Monday, May 20, 2013


In this particular passage, Moses 2, God talks about how He created the Earth. Further along, He talks about how He has dominion over us all. I think this is a great thing for us to remember and should have attention drawn to it. This is so important for us to know because it reminds us that we are not the ultimate creature. While we may rule over the animals here on Earth, there is one we are not above. We are not the top, or the best. We rely so much on our Heavenly Father as we go about our daily lives. At the same time, this is very humbling. We know we can call upon someone greater than us whenever we need help. I know for me personally, there have been many times I have had to ask God for help because I did not know the answer or wasn't sure if my answer was the correct answer. But Heavenly Father knows. In the first verse it says "I am the Beginning and the End, the Almighty God; by mine Only Begotten I created these things; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest." This reminds us that God is always here. I feel that this is always incredibly reassuring to know that He will never leave us. He is the Beginning and the End, which means He has been here in the beginning and will be until the end, and even after that. 
God, as we know, created the sun and the moon. I think we can use both of these to serve as a reminder that He is always with us. When the sun sets, the moon appears. And even during a new moon, we can still see its outline.
Something that came to mind as I read this is we can think of the sun as God. Not that the sun is God, because it is not. But it is LIKE God. CREATED by God. And can serve as a reminder that He is always there. The sun, in our solar system is the brightest. And like the sun, God is the best and brightest. We can think of the moon as to being like His Son, Jesus. Jesus is not God, but He does play a massive role in our lives. We can think of Him as the lesser of the great lights. And as we ponder on this we can think of the stars that surround them as us. Each of His little children. None greater than Him, but nonetheless, still important. 
In Moses 2, The Plan of Salvation is referred to when Heavenly Father tells Moses of how He created all things "spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth." With this being referenced, I believe we can know for sure, without a doubt, that we were once in Heaven with our Father as spirits before we came to this earth. Because we were created spiritually before we were created naturally. 
Continuing with the reference of The Plan of Salvation, we know Heavenly Father wants us to learn and grow so that we may one day be like Him. Part of being like Him is some self-reliance; being somewhat dependent. This is often a difficult concept to grasp because we don't want to rely so much on Heavenly Father that we ask Him for help with everything, but neither do we want it to be where we only depend on Him in moderation. When you try to balance something like that, with just moderation, bad things happen and you no longer carry the same amount of faith you once bad. You begin to think that you can do things by yourself, that you do not need Heavenly Father. I have been there before and I can say it is not fun. We need Him more than we could ever believe. But it is also His will that we exercise some dependence. It is also very important to remember that Heavenly Father created each and every one of us and that He loves us very, very much.