"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had crested from all his work which God created and made.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground."
Genesis 2:1-5
It is interesting that this talks about the day of rest and everything being finished, but all before anything was created physically. The real work seems to have been all spiritual. And that is cool too... that everything that God made had a spiritual aspect, not just humanity and "the soul," but all of it, including herbs and plants as mentioned here, but likely other things as well. Moses 3:5 clarifies this for us with "For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth."
Obviously we don't know all of the science behind it, but God does explain some of it to us through Joseph Smith in Doctrine and Covenants 131:7-8: "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; / We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter."
I guess the moral of the story for today is that we should take our spiritual selves, and the whole spirit realm, more seriously. We focus on the physical for the most part, and put thoughts of our spiritual lives on the back burner, and of course some of that makes sense because here we are, living in a physical world... but let's remember that it is a spiritual world too, underneath the surface, and also that our eternal futures are tied to the spiritual outcomes of this life. Let's make the choice to engage with God and to learn more about the spiritual core of who we are, and of the world around us, rather than just focusing on the shallow outer shell. :)
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had crested from all his work which God created and made.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground."
Genesis 2:1-5
It is interesting that this talks about the day of rest and everything being finished, but all before anything was created physically. The real work seems to have been all spiritual. And that is cool too... that everything that God made had a spiritual aspect, not just humanity and "the soul," but all of it, including herbs and plants as mentioned here, but likely other things as well. Moses 3:5 clarifies this for us with "For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth."
Obviously we don't know all of the science behind it, but God does explain some of it to us through Joseph Smith in Doctrine and Covenants 131:7-8: "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; / We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter."
I guess the moral of the story for today is that we should take our spiritual selves, and the whole spirit realm, more seriously. We focus on the physical for the most part, and put thoughts of our spiritual lives on the back burner, and of course some of that makes sense because here we are, living in a physical world... but let's remember that it is a spiritual world too, underneath the surface, and also that our eternal futures are tied to the spiritual outcomes of this life. Let's make the choice to engage with God and to learn more about the spiritual core of who we are, and of the world around us, rather than just focusing on the shallow outer shell. :)
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