He Knows, and That's All I Care About!

I found this in the Ensign, Please read!!! :)  

(I marked my favorite parts)

The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Creator

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This is the first in a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring aspects of the mission of the Savior.

Jesus Christ “created the heavens and the earth” (3 Nephi 9:15). He did so through the power of the priesthood, under the direction of our Heavenly Father (see Moses 1:33).

“How grateful we should be that a wise Creator fashioned an earth and placed us here,” said President Thomas S. Monson, “… that we might experience a time of testing, an opportunity to prove ourselves in order to qualify for all that God has prepared for us to receive.” When we use our agency to obey God’s commandments and repent, we become worthy to return to live with Him.

Of the Creation, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, said:

“We are the reason He created the universe! …

“This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.” Knowing that Jesus Christ created the earth for us because we mean everything to Heavenly Father can help us increase our love for Them.

From the Scriptures

John 1:3; Hebrews 1:1–2; Mosiah 3:8; Moses 1:30–33, 35–39; Abraham 3:24–25

From Our History

We have been created in God’s image (see Moses 2:26–27), and we have divine potential. The Prophet Joseph Smith admonished the sisters in Relief Society to “live up to [their] privilege.” With that encouragement as a foundation, sisters in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been taught to live up to their divine potential by fulfilling God’s purposes for them. 

“As they come to understand who they really are—God’s daughters, with an innate capacity to love and nurture—they reach their potential as holy women.”

“You are now placed in a situation where you can act according to those sympathies which God has planted in your bosoms,” said the Prophet Joseph Smith. “If you live up to these principles how great and glorious!—if you live up to your privilege, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.”

My thoughts: I know that I have wondered in the past, "Why would God place us in this awful world?" or "Why does God just want to test us???" These are questions have made me in the past question my faith. This talk perfectly explains these questions!!! “We are the reason He created the universe! …  

He loves us like parents love their children! Children often don't understand why their parents do what they do, but that's okay. \ Our parents give us rules, because they know from experience! I believe that Heavenly Father was once like us, and he went through it. Heavenly Father has a perfect understanding that we need to be brave enough to accept and follow. He knows what are going through. I have put my trust in Him. At this point, the world can throw at me anti church material or speech, but the foundation of my faith is upon God himself, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.  

We must have faith, and we will grow towards His knowledge. God promises through the scriptures to reveal these things unto us. I love answers, even the ones the Lord postpones to tell me. Something I have learned through prayer: I cannot go on a mission, and expect that people will be converted by logic of the gospel alone. I can show them the connection between scripture, I can tell them why our church is the most correct. That alone is worth nothing. The only way we can truly convert is through the Holy Spirit. When men are ready to hear, the spirit will fill them. I must teach by, and only by the spirit if I want to share the message of Christ. 

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.