Genesis 1:2-5

As I was saying on the previous study, the first two verses are a sum of this account that Moses is going to write. I think also, that when he says that God created the Heavens (and I mean Gods) he is referring to all of the creations that Moses witnessed with his spiritual eyes in the vision of all the creations of God. Think of the Heavens as everything the Hubble telescope could show us and more. Imagine something like that amazing scene in Contact when she sees the nebula and the galaxies, stars, planets, etc. I like to think of those things. I like to think that there are greater things up there waiting for us to discover and when we do all this is going to be very small indeed. All the problems that plague this earth will be nothing really. But then, when Moses start talking about the earth as he does not go into detail on the Universe and beyond, he talks about light. Maybe the most important thing was done first and that is what we should learn here.

I am pretty sure light already existed. God was not in darkness. He is full of light. Jesus is the light of this world. So, to think that when he said "Let there be light" was the first time light appeared in vast blob of darkness is infantile and silly. Light was everywhere but then he gets to this corner and he is organizing an amazing planet. It is very easy to discredit this report and I want all to know that unlike many religions today we do not discredit the Bible's first 11 chapters. We do believe that God created the earth.

To "create" here as we understand, is more like to "organize." God is organizing. Matter to us is eternal. According to the Prophet Joseph Smith, matter and spirit are of the same substance, one subject to corruption the other not. We don't understand much of matter anyway. There are different ways we find matter, as in solid, liquid, gas, plasma (I think that is how we say it but I am thinking in Portuguese) but how about spirit? It think that is a form of manifestation of matter that we don't understand much because we cannot capture and study. So, when the gods around in this corner of the Universe they are putting together a lot of matter into a form that is first spiritual then it will become corrupt and life will become corrupt too and we get to the state where we are now.

But before he even starts the process, he "turns on the light" because life cannot exist without it. He had to set up the proper environment. No wonder we get depressed with not much light. I read books that told me that to fix depressing modes I had to turn on the light on a lamp and stay close to it, or go outside and feel the sunlight on my face. We must be surrounded by light to have a communion with God. We feel scared in the dark. Dark is a work that denotes evil. We all know that. Dark loses all the time as when you open the door to a dark room, it is the light that enters the room and not the dark that goes toward the lightened area.

It says here that God saw that the light was good and we all can agree with that. But we need darkness to rest don't we? What if we were all like in those northern countries where there is practically no night? I would be tired! They have to block the light to make darkness so they can rest. So, the record does not say that darkness is bad because it is saying that light was good. What I mean with the connotation that dark has to do with evil is that Satan uses all that is dark because in the end he will abide in complete darkness. There cannot be light where Christ is and Christ is not where Satan is. If we want to have the influence of Christ in our life we must agree that light is good and cling to light. Every time we embrace darkness we alienate Christ from our life. So, it is always good to pray at night, I think. I think angels can tend for us at night and bad things don't happen and we don't know why but it is because the war between light and darkness is always going on although we are not listening to the blasts here and there.

Have you all seen the animation on Toy Story 3 about night and day? It shows that both must exist and some beautiful things of this world and beyond can only be appreciated with light and some can only be appreciated with darkness. It is the world making a point there but it is in some way a good point. Opposition is defined in the first day of creation. Day and night, light and darkness. As much as I dislike opposition's effects because it is simply too much (well, the Lord knows when I disagree with Him, I will do what he says, but I can disagree with the excess in opposition in this life so there) I know it is necessary and he will continue making separations between this and that until he starts creating things to populate the planet.

I think we should meditate on this, on how many things in our lives brings darkness to it, and how many things bring more light. Let's shun from dark thoughts and fill our minds with light. Let's buy more lamps. Let's open the windows, let's walk outside, work outside, play outside! Let's embrace light and see the effects of light in our life. Satan has beautiful things to offer to us that need darkness to be pretty but we can all live without them. I love Vegas because it is beautiful at night, but then a lot of evil comes from Sin City. I think I can live without Vegas and I can appreciate Temple Square. The problem with looking for light in places and things that come from darkness is that in the end darkness gets you. All churches have some light because they read from readings of people inspired by the Holy Ghost. All that is good comes from God. I believe the LDS church has access to the source of all light because Christ is directing the church through his prophets. Religious people of all faith do a lot of good (light) because they draw from God's influence to serve others, they are motivated by light.

So, in the first day God divided the light from the darkness. Maybe as we plan to achieve eternal goals, the first thing to do is make the distinction between the two, see what is darkness and what is light inside of us, separate the two and choose light always. It is not easy, I know, but that is what we must do because it makes us move forward. Let's separatre darkness from light too, in our lives, and choose the light.