Geology 101

Simply put, the earth is made up of rock! Lots and LOTS of Rock! I had a spiritual thought process (after memorizing a scripture in The Book of Mormon [side note: which by the way is one of the coolest experiences of my life to be able to memorize scripture and I KNOW that it is not because I am cool like that, but because the Lord is helping me too! Ahhmazing and highly recommended!]) one night after leaving my Geology class that went something like this…

Rock is EVERYWHERE… it’s on the earth, in the earth; it is something that is always replenishing. When it gets put into the atmosphere because of a volcanic eruption, it comes back down to earth and goes through the rock cycle… coming up in the earth and going back down in a continuous cycle of recycling (remember I said “simply put”). It will even go through the erosion process mixing with dirt, it will be swept in the oceans and be deposited on the sea floor and go through the rock cycle there too!

Okay, rocks are pretty cool now that I know a little bit more about them, but I LOVE the fact that in a science class I am able to learn even more about Jesus Christ and how I can live my life according to His Gospel too! Now onto the scripture and connection with Rock *grin*

“And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build, they cannot fall”.    –Helaman 5:12

Jesus Christ is the ROCK! He is EVERYWHERE! He is even as the earth (in oh so many ways, but I’m only going to touch one main thought process here) in the sense that He is made up of Rock… the earth has three layers… the crust (rock) which we can see and what we can literally build our foundations on… the mantle (more rock) where pressure and heat are necessary to refine and makes rock stronger through physical and chemical change… and the core which is made primarily of iron (think of what “The Rod” is made of ;) which I look at as Christ being centered on the word of God!

If we build/center our lives on the ROCK our Redeemer Jesus Christ WE CANNOT FALL! What a glorious promise! I don’t want be like the foolish man who built his house on the sand, because we all know that when the rains came down and the floods came up, the house on the sand washed away! I want to be like the wise man and build my house on the rock because after those rains and floods the house on the rock stood still!