Creating or Destroying?

I love the holy scriptures. I love to read them. The Lord teaches me great truths as I feast upon His words.

Recently, I was pondering about the Creation of the world. A friend once that told me that she wondered why it was so important for us to learn about the Creation, so, I asked our Heavenly Father in prayer.

What happened next came (how my dear friend, Lori describes it) as a truth download!  None of what came was new, it was just in a different format than I'd ever received it in.

Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ CREATE! They build up.

Satan DESTROYS! He tears down.

Satan encourages us to create evil things so that he can then make sure we are completely destroyed. He ensures our destruction.

Every thought and choice we make are either creating or destroying, ourselves and others.  

No matter how many times Satan inspires us or others around us to destroy by our thoughts and choices, the Atonement is INFINITE! (see 2 Nephi 9:7)

There is an ancient Japanese art called Kintsugi. Broken pottery is repaired with seams of gold or silver.  When we are broken by our own sins and mistakes and by the sins and mistakes of others, the Savior Jesus Christ can heal our souls when we repent. 

The Atonement of Jesus Christ is truly infinite. It will never run out. I picture myself as a broken vessel that is filled with seams of gold and silver every time I access the Savior's Atonement.

Our Father and Savior created the world, Satan sought to destroy it with the Fall of mankind.  The Savior, through the Atonement, when we choose to come to Him and follow Him, heals and repairs our souls and makes us more beautiful than we were previously.

One of the best talks ever about this subject is given by our prophet, President Russell M. Nelson...Constancy amid Change.

Our Father in Heaven invites us to build ourselves and others up and create beauty in this world.