Thursday, March 5, 2009

Spiritual Thought

Well, the day that I got to give a spiritual thought, I showed up late. I told myself that I didn't need to put on eye liner to have a good day, but my eyes just looke naked without it.
So I get there just in time to ask somebody to pray and to give my spiritual thought. I did end up just going with my favourite scripture. I just summarized what was going on in the chapter, then read a couple of verses.

So the scripture I read was Moses 1: 13 & 14
What's happened so far is that God has appeared to Moses, but Moses says that he doesn't see God with his "natural eye" because if he had then he would have "withered and died" because his glory is so exceedingly great. Then Satan comes and basically tries ot convince Moses to come to the dark side (as I explained it to my seminary class). Then I read Moses 1:13 & 14.

13. And it came to pass that Moses looked upon Satan and said: Who art thou? For behold, I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten; and where is thy glory, that I should worship thee?
14. For behold, I could not look upon God, except his glory should come upon me, and I were transfigured before him. But I can look upon thee in the natural man. Is it not so, surely?

And yeah, I just like that because it says that the glory of God is so brilliant that even the most righteous of men are overwhelmed to look at him, but Satan can appear almost as if a normal man.
I like it when he says "Who art thou? For behold, I am a son of God...". He's saying that even though he is merely a child of God, he has the potential for a much greater glory than Satan could ever wish for.

I always repeat this scripture to myself when I'm being tmepted. If somebody offers me drugs or something, I just think "who are they?" and then "who am I?" and it becomes pretty clear who I'd rather be.
I'd strongly suggest that you read the first chapter of Moses, or at least Moses 1: 11-16 and possibly verse 18 too.

Also, on a side note, the talent show is tomorrow. It's gunna be so funny. And I invited my friend to come too. She said she wanted to go, but that she hasn't asked if she can go yet, so it's not garaunteed. Quite frankly I'm relieved that she definitely still wants to go.

I just spent three hours writing two short stories and a letter to my future self. I'd post them but they really suck. They're good for my age and I'll probably get high marks on them but for my standards they're not very good.

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