Visiting Teaching Message
The Divine Mission
Prayerfully study
this material and seek to know what to share.
How will understanding the life and Mission
Him and bless those
you watch over through visiting teaching?
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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 are 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
John 1:3; Hebrews 1:1-2;
Mosiah 3:8;
Moses 1:30-33,35-39; Abraham
3:24-25
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 by 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?
Notes
1. Thomas S. Monson, “The Race of Life,” Ensign,
May 2012,91.
2. Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “You
Matter to Him” Ensign, Nov. 2011, 20.
3. Joseph Smith, in Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and
Work of Relief Society (2011, 171.
4. Daughters in my Kingdom, 171.
5. Joseph Smith, in Daughters in my Kingdom, 169
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