The university professor challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!" "God created everything?" The professor asked. "Yes sir", the student replied. The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil". The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?" "What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat." The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?" The professor responded, "Of course it does." The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil." To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light." The professor sat down. The young man's name --- Albert Einstein
The love of God. What is the love of god? Simply asked, simply answered, God’s love is Christ. By far the most amazing and precious of all gifts is the gift of life. The gift of a chance at life, even the gift of ones life for another as Jesus gave. If we are here on this earth today we have this incredible blessing. With that comes responsibility. Jesus has told us that we have to take the indicative and he will not dwell in unholy places. What do we learn from this? That we must ask and keep ourselves worthy for him to be with us. This world is vast and there are so many opportunities, both for good and for evil. It is up to us to choose if we want him by our side.
There has been a lot of growing up for me this past summer, as there is for most people my age. From Utah to Hawaii I have had a better chance to see what the Lord has given me in the world. People, plants, animals there is so much to be discovered in this world. Much that will teach me who I am and who I want to be. I can take these blessings and learn from them. High School graduation is a large lesson, well it was for me. Goodbye to some old friends, Hello to my new life. I am not just in that bubble of Murray anymore. Not that the bubble was bad, it was not. It made me who I am and I love me. Though that bubble might have mountains, waters, flowers, there are many more different verities and I have learned how to choose my preference. One must explore the world to see what it has to offer, but if the choice is to go back home at least they know what is out there.
This summer I was blessed to visit the ocean. Beautiful colors in the sunset shinning above showed me how to have light in my life and what I need that light for. Life is a big ocean and I am making the biggest decisions of that life right now. God given nature showed me how to do it. Jesus is the light and I am the color. I choose how light or dark I am. Every one is a different color in this sunset of a world. Every one has a path to follow, a potential to rise to. Though it may not be as big as the Pacific Ocean.
Christ is the light to see our way trough the darkness of life, even if the darkness is as vast as the Pacific Ocean. He is our only resource, our only sunlight. He can not just be used, we have to choose to follow him, choose to find our way out of the darkness for him. We must Live righteously and invite him to be with us always. We have to take our sunglasses off in order to let in the light. The choices we make determine the strength of our brightness, the color we are. The right choices, can we see them? No. But it is there in the darkness, the sudden breeze of warmth, of the whispering echo, the center point in the sun. He has taught us how to recognize it.
Oh, we have seen remarkable events as we have flipped the remote control of observation and memory. One of the most touching involved a young lady convert to the Church who had found in a Latter-day Saint fellow student, and in her fellow student’s home, where she was invited for family home evening, a spirit and a caring relationship she had never known in her own life. She said that since her baptism, things had not really materially changed in her own home; there were still abuse and argument and alcohol and foul language. “But,” she said, “there is one room at my house where I can go and shut the door and read the scriptures and listen to good music and pray and feel the Spirit of the Lord. In my little room I can have that blessing. One day, if the Lord will help me, I will marry a man with whom I can live in a home where we can have the Spirit of the Lord always.”
This quote is me. My house is not ideal but my home, my room even, is where I make the rules. I am the one that determines how the strength of my bulb. I am the one that determines how big my ocean is. I am the one who determines what makes my home. There is help only if I choose to have it in my life. But I am only an 18 year old girl how can I make myself an ocean alone? The answer is I cant. He died to make me an ocean, and if I allow his light I can be the center point of that sunset.
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