Every good team needs a good coach. Rather, every good team becomes good because of a good coach. The coach knows what he's doing. He presents the game plan that will benefit the team the most. He knows what plays are going to work best for the team, and which players to play at certain points in the game. He loves his players. He is saddened like they are when they lose, but he rejoices with them when they win.
God is our loving Heavenly Father. We are literally His spirit sons and daughters. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16). He loves us and we lived with Him before we came to earth. We wanted to become like Him, so He presented to us a plan. A perfect plan of happiness, that if we followed it, we would be able to return to live with Him again and with our families forever. I am so happy that I have this knowledge that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me so much that He's given me a guaranteed way to "win" everlasting happiness, if I follow His plan.
I'm sure you all can testify that God has given you some remarkable gifts and blessings throughout your life. God also gave us gifts in the pre-earth life. One gift He gave us was agency-the ability to choose and act for ourselves. We could make our own decisions. So when our Father in Heaven presented the Plan of Salvation to us we could choose to accept it. And we did! We know that because we are here on earth! We have bodies! Just like He does! (Genesis 1:26-27).
He also chose a Savior who was Jesus Christ (our team captain or MVP, if you will) to make it possible so we could succeed and return to live with our Father in Heaven. (John 3:16)
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| I love life. Look at how happy we are because we chose God's plan! |
To be continued...
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