Gospel Doctrine

Sunday, January 3, 2010

I read my lesson today and I found a cool site with lots of info.  Check it out .  This is my favorite quote of the day.

http://www.gospeldoctrine.com/OldTestament/otindex.html

Neal A. Maxwell

Comparing what we are with what we have the power to become should give us great spiritual hope. Think of it this way: There are some very serene, blue lakes on this planet situated in cavities which once were red, belching volcanos. Likewise, there are beautiful, green, tropical mountains formed from ancient, hot extrusions. The parallel transformation of humans is much more remarkable than all of that—much more beautiful and much more everlasting!

So it is, amid the vastness of His creations, God’s personal shaping influence is felt in the details of our lives—not only in the details of the galaxies and molecules but, much more importantly, in the details of our own lives. Somehow God is providing these individual tutorials for us while at the same time He is overseeing cosmic funerals and births, for as one earth passes away so another is born (see Moses 1:38). It is marvelous that He would attend to us so personally in the midst of those cosmic duties. (“Becoming a Disciple,” Ensign, June 1996, 17)