"Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God? Know ye not that he hath all power, and at his great command the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll?"
Mormon 5:23
Here, the prophet Mormon is warning the people he is writing to (us) about the future. A good reminder, and maybe especially significant for him because he couldn't save his people then, but he had hope that he could save some people in the future. The whole idea of the earth being wrapped together like a scroll is hard to imagine, but also really a strong image... almost surreal, like something that happens and it shows you that nothing is really the way that you thought it was.
I don't really think that the earth is flat or that it could be wrapped together that way, but whether the scripture is symbolic or perhaps just illustrative of a way of moving the world that we haven't seen before, maybe that surreal feeling is a good thing to cultivate if we want to really consider God's will in our lives. When we get complacent and assume that we know what's what, or even what is possible, then sometimes we overlook something that God has in mind. It's hard to get into the mindset of the earth being fragile and temporary like that... but today, maybe a good exercise just in thinking about God being in charge and what all that means... how huge it is, since he is the creator and what isn't fragile or temporary in terms of God being able to change or redo?
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