Worlds Without Number
As my seven-year-old son and I took our dog for a walk a couple of nights ago, he looked up at the stars and saw the big dipper. He told me that he found a question mark in the sky, and he was thrilled when I let him use the app on my phone to point at the stars and learn what constellations they were. I thought of his excitement for the stars as I read this quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell today, “Long before He was born at Bethlehem and became known as Jesus of Nazareth, our Savior was Jehovah. Way back then, under the direction of the Father, Christ was the Lord of the universe, who created worlds without number—of which ours is only one (see Eph. 3:9; Heb. 1:2). How many planets are there in the universe with people on them? We don’t know, but we are not alone in the universe! God is not the God of only one planet!” This quote is in a scripture help for Moses 1:37-38 in which the Lord said this to Moses: “The heavens, they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but they a...