n and the moon: to rule the day and night and to divide light from darkness. The Gods are making sure that time will pass for us. It is the introduction of that clock ticking which is not a problem for them, just for us. Can you imagine time not being of essence? Can you imagine moving back and forth in time if needed? In this galaxy, in this planet, time was to pass in measurements of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, centuries, etc... and we would have a time appointed to be here. The rotations of these elements is very important, the distances between moon and earth, and sun and earth, of utmost importance because in short time man would be introduced and then fall and then time will start ticking.This is the last part of the macro-creation process. So far the Gods were concentrating on the body of the planet itself and its position and rotation in the Universe. It was about light and darkness and also about earth and water, vegetation in general, waters above and below, big things. These things all provided and environment for life as we know to exist on earth. Now fish, birds and animals will be introduced and then man. l think this part here is interesting in particular because now there are places that are cold and places that are warm and no one to experience that. There is wind and rain and humidity in different levels of variation depending on the location and 365 days will make a year for our little planet. I mentioned at work before how I would like to live in Venus where one day takes 365 of our days to pass (something like that.) I would do a lot more in one day at work and then with the family! But then, short days are great!
This is the fourth day of creation and although there is silence in the sense that there is no animal, there is thunder and lightning and rain. There are tornadoes and volcanoes and such. I bet there are earthquakes too. The land is positioning itself and roots are making sure the ground is firm. I wonder what kinds of plants existed then that do not exist anymore. I wo
nder also how long this really took. As people calculate the age of the rocks and some fossils they find things that are really old. I know that the matter used to make this planet came from space and thus it does not bother me that they can reach billions of years way before Adam. One day for God is 1,000 years for us but maybe this process, this counting of "day and night" is the counting of the Gods. Who knows. 6,000 years of creations still is not long enough to have dinosaurs show up and die. I wonder what the explanation is for them. Considering the planet did not come from zero matter but it is matter organized maybe there is some explanation there. If we are to recycle why not the Gods?I just love to imagine the creation in the terms of creation and not accident because it shows that Heavenly Father cares for us. He is going through the trouble of making a beautiful place for us to live. From the very beginning it has been about doing something for someone else. He knows all that will go on here and in his infinite wisdom he still continues the process of creation. I keep saying that I want fire from heaven to come down and stop this mess that we are in, but there are so many good people around too. It took a long time to create this earth. I don't think Heavenly Father is out to destroy, but to glorify and that is why regardless of this mess in our days he keeps the fire from heaven from coming dow. There are people that spend their lives trying to save the planet. We in our minimal way try to recycle and save it somehow. There are people that try to save species in extinction. There are people trying to save souls (missionaries), to save the hungry children (volunteers of all religions) and so on. Some are building more structures for more people to live, some are teaching, some are protecting us. There are parents trying to make their children productive and good people in society. There is always someone doing something for someone else, building, not destroying, either because they are being paid or because they simply care. My point is: we must find things to do to contribute to our little world and be builders not the guys driving the truck with the wrecking ball: help friends, family, church, etc. We cannot just take from this planet, or just wait to be served.
I think the importance of this fourth day of creation is that the world is turning and the days, the seasons, and the years are passing. We cannot escape the time to pass and the clock is ticking for all of us. We will all depart from here and our memories will go with us. Let's make sure that they will be good memories and that we don't waste the time of our probation as it says in the Book of Mormon. There is also a time for everything under the sun, as it says in Ecclesiastes, and we must make sure we don't panic just because it is time to war - because there will be time for peace. There is a time to sew and a time to gather the fruits of what was planted. There is a time to be sad and a time to be happy. We must experience many things but all of this shall pass and each will grow according to his or her own experience. Today maybe a bad day but tomorrow we can make it a good day. For some people their days here are short, for some too long. For the lonely, or the one who is not busy in a good cause, the clock moves very slowly, for the popular and those surrounded by friends and family, very fast indeed. Some people are wasting their time in things of this world that destroy and some are trying to build something, to improve themselves, to make sure there are more good people around.We should make sure that our days are filled with service and that we think of others. There is so much to be done and yet Satan gives us so much entertainment we waste day after day after day. Let's make sure we get up and do something useful. I feel time passing by me like the wind. I know that our hearts can stop at any time. We have no idea how many years were appointed to us and even then, stupid people can cause our death because of their bad choices, and we can decrease those days by what we eat and our lifestyle.
There is so much that can make our time here shorter that I could not write about. Sometimes I just want to go because I am tired of the stupidity around me, but then, we have a mission, all of us, and we must help Heavenly Father in his mission to provide immortality and eternal life to all. We must stay here as long as we can and make sure we use our time to improve our life and those of the people around us. This is not the gospel of the coward or the lazy but the brave and the productive.
Every day is a challenge, life here is not easy, but we must move on and there will be a day and a night and what we do in between is always important, it defines us, it shapes us, it will have consequences good and bad. Jesus provides the atonement so the days don't just accumulate guilt and condemnation.
Because the Lord is so merciful and the atonement is sufficient to make up for o
ur failure to use the day the way we should, every morning we get a new opportunity and we get a blank page to write anything we want: today I exercised, I prayed, I read scriptures, I went to work, I read a book, I helped a friend or a stranger, I visited or called a relative, I checked my email, I made a sculpture, I shared the gospel, etc, etc, etc. What should we write on this page we got today? Will it be productive? Will there be any time not used for something good? The world is turning, a season is passing, a year is half gone. Let's make sure we take the opportunity Christ gave us today to start over and do better then we did yesterday, and tomorrow let's plan to do better than we accomplish today. And we will see that it was morning and night, and it will be another day, and we may say, like the Lord, that it was good.
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