Visiting
Teaching Message: The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Creator
This is the first in a series of Visiting
Teaching Messages featuring aspects of the mission of the Savior.
Jesus Christ
“created the heavens and the earth” (3 Nephi
9:15). He did so through the power of the priesthood, under the direction
of our Heavenly Father (see Moses 1:33).
“How grateful we should be that a wise Creator fashioned an
earth and placed us here,” said President Thomas S.
Monson, “… that we might experience a time of testing, an opportunity
to prove ourselves in order to qualify for all that God has prepared for us to
receive.”1 When we use our agency to obey God’s
commandments and repent, we become worthy to return to live with Him.
Of the Creation, President Dieter F.
Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, said:
“We are the reason He created the universe! …
“This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet
we are everything to God.”2 Knowing that Jesus Christ created the
earth for us because we mean everything to Heavenly Father can help us increase
our love for Them.
From the Scriptures
From Our History
We have been created in God’s image (see Moses
2:26–27), and we have divine potential. The Prophet Joseph Smith admonished the sisters
in Relief Society to “live up to [their] privilege.”3 With that encouragement as a
foundation, sisters in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have
been taught to live up to their divine potential by fulfilling God’s purposes
for them. “As they come to understand who they really are—God’s daughters, with
an innate capacity to love and nurture—they reach their potential as holy
women.”4
“You are now placed in a situation where you can act according
to those sympathies which God has planted in your bosoms,” said the Prophet
Joseph Smith. “If you live up to these principles how great and glorious!—if
you live up to your privilege, the angels cannot be restrained from being your
associates.”5
What Can I Do?
1.
How does seeking to understand our divine nature increase our
love for the Savior?
2.
How can we show our gratitude
for God’s creations?
“A Child of God”
cji
10/1/13
As man/woman we are
nothing
yet of royal birth we
are known
of great worth unto
the Father
willing to sacrifice
his own Son
our own Savior –
Jesus Christ
our elder brother who
we love
and thus in obedience
to be
for if we love our
Lord in toto’
then we should never
murmur
giving of all we have
in life
in his service now
and forever!
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