The glory of the after life. It seems to complicated to me, and I don’t like to think about it. I think this is because I don’t like to image sending people any place but the top. Most of the time I can not imagine someone going to any were but heave, and other times I image that we are all just going to go to Hell. The idea that there are glories, and that it is plural is strange to me; at least a little strange to me.
I am going to the temple tomorrow morning to do baptism work. The work that I will be doing will be for the dead. While I am there I want to pray a little more about the degrees of glory and what they mean to me right now. I should ask myself some questions before I go there:
Is there any way to tell who will be in the degrees?
What is so important about having the degrees?
Were there degrees in the premarital life?
Are there degrees within all of the degrees?
One thing, before I go to bed, I am thinking about is how the degrees are sealed. Is the after life sealed like this earth with souls still wondering, and people able to communicate with the after life. Is it sealed by putting us all on separate earth’s or are these earths divided by a space-time difference. How does the fourth dimension work into the division of all of the degrees?
All of this has me confused and I am slightly tired. There were lots of things that I did not understand when I read today.
I read really fast.
I wanted to get this journal done.
It is later.
I have to wake up in the morning.
I should sleep more….
I am thinking about that last statement; that I should sleep more. I am thinking about how important my physical body is to me right now, and how that is part of how I react and respond to events. That when I am sleepy my reaction is different than when I am not. This treatment of my physical body influence my eternal destiny.
My body is not created to go to bed late and wake up early. It is not designed to go to sleep late and wake up late. It is created to go to bed early and wake up early. It is designed to have energy in it, and to eat healthy food. My body was created with these functions so that I can fulfill my purpose. When I do not take care of my body I am not fulfilling my purpose.
My purpose is to become like God- God would take care of His body because he respects his bodies creation. How I can respect my own creation and other people's creations, and other things: trees, wind, power, all things have a purpose to their creation and should be respectful of that purpose.
Simply because someone has a purpose for their creation it does not mean that they will fullfil the purpose of their creation- that is how the degrees come in I think... that you only allow the grace of the Savior to fill up your purpose cup partly and not fully- but then it has something to do with actions. How we allow the Savor to help us is to follow His commandments? is that fullfilling my spiritual purpose- well there is a spiritual death and a physical death. I should fullfill both purposes while in this life. They both seem vitally conected. I need to pay attention to my phsyical purpose, and go to bed.