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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 ScripturesFrom 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?
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
October 2013 Visiting Teaching Lesson
