WE ARE HERE BY DESIGN
Are you comfortable within or is there something more that you are missing that you must do or something you must become?
Are you looking with a searchful eye for that someone or something that will bring peace and fulfillment to your heart?
Have you identified your purpose and reason for being here and have you charted a course of action to see it fulfilled?
Can you feel the urge of something most powerful that you have yet to experience and witness that you are waiting to come into your life?
We are living at a time when so much technology and invention along with an overscheduling of activities that consumes much of our daily attention and focus that we sometimes pass by the simple and pure moments of this life that it was designed to provide.
When was the last time you stopped and took a deep breath of fresh air? Did you miss the gorgeous sunset that painted the sky because you lost yourself in watching some trendy latest video or answering a text?
Did you miss the cry of a tender babe reaching out for someone’s touch but you weren’t there?
Are you more worried about entertaining and stimulating your life instead of generating goodness for the blessing of others?
This world has purpose and if we are not careful we will miss out on those precious teaching moments that were sent to us for our long-term growth and eternal progression.
The spiritual influences that we sometimes most miss out of and ignore are the simple and loving ones that are really the driving forces of life moving us onward and forward completing God’s work and Glory in bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man, of which we are. The world keeps trying to keep it from us by replacing it with doubt, lack of truth, and the sensational physically stimulating influences generated by the love of money.
We are here by design. We did not just happen and we must not let another day go by and ‘just happen’ either. Each day must be planned with meditation and prayer followed by an ear to hear inspirational promptings of the Holy Spirit along with definite action items in order to accomplish our reason and purposes for being here.
From which source do you get your inspiration? There are two.
Are you caught up in the inertia or gravity of one of these forces and you find yourself somewhat trapped and just can’t get out?
It is important that you achieve a balance and order in all things. This world has replaced much of the spiritual flow of influence. It is a most important day and time to realize it and make choices that bring balance into your life as time is slipping away in God’s Plan of Happiness and our time in this life when one must achieve certain things in order to progress to another higher or lower world of glory is upon us. What you choose, is your choice! If you chose poorly, change it.
There are two forces in this world. There is a powerful driving force behind both of them as the laws of God require there must be opposites in all things. It is as though a war is going on within between the two forces to influence and capture your soul whose prupose drives both forces. Every person born has a father and a mother. Satan makes a major effort to destroy the sanctity of the family, demean the importance of the role of men and women, encourage moral uncleanliness and violations of the sacred law of chastity, and to discourage parents from placing the bearing and rearing of children as one of their highest priorities.
The family is the primary support structure in God’s plan to help us resist evil, overcome weakness, and work out our salvation. For this reason we should do all we can to strengthen the family in these days of confusion and opposition. The best choice one can make is to find a partner in life and get married and have a family. Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children. The family, the most fundamental institution of society, is under attack from all sides. Adultery, divorce, cohabitation, child and spouse abuse, homosexuality, abortion, teen pregnancies, pornography, disobedient children, economic struggles, an increasing unwillingness among married couples to bear and rear children—all these and more are proof that the adversary understands very well the central role the family plays in the destiny of God’s children.
Even in such circumstances, we need not fear. God is with us. In the end, good will conquer evil. In the here and now, however, we must take our place on the front line in this war that began in the premortal world and do all we can to preserve and protect the sanctity of the family. In the last days of gathering gloom, the teachings and ordinances of the restored gospel shine as a unique beacon of hope. As we build our families upon the gospel’s firm foundation, our light will shine brighter and attract those who are seeking hope and happiness in a deteriorating world that offers neither.
The day is upon us when all truth will be revealed. The veil on our minds of not remembering will be lifted from this testing period of life. It is then, when every knee shall bend and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ. All lies and evil designs of the world will show forth their ugly heads and we will find ourselves as though we are looking in a mirror, reviewing our own life as the day has come when we face our Maker. Then, it will be too late to make changes.
Choices we have made are recorded in the book of life and the process of repentance offered by Jesus Christ must have been made prior to death or they will be on our records for review. This is why it is so important to let Him remove your sins by repenting and gaining forgiveness. There will be no doubt that Jesus is the Christ; that the Creation and His Plan of Happiness did really happen and that we lived before this world in the Spirit World when we shouted for joy when we were presented God’s Plan of Happiness was announced for all to come to earth and get a physical body in order to fulfill His ‘work and glory’ and in becoming more like our eternal parents. Yes, we will remember!
It will be then when all the evil and worldliness that Satan, his conspiring men, plus the one third of the hosts of heaven that followed Satan in the pre-existence that have introduced to this world all the immorality, lies, thoughts, abortions, killing, taking the Lord’s name in vain, even the damaging of our bodies will have to be answered with a price and Satan and those who follow will be cast out to outer darkness to receive their reward. The choices of following the ‘natural man’ will prove damaging and “an enemy to God” as the scriptures stated. All prophecy will have been fulfilled as will the return of Jesus Christ to rule forever. It is then that all the hurt or all the joy will fill our souls and the time to return and report what we did with our lives will be at hand with appropriate blessings or punishments.
There will be no lying, or claiming, “I never knew”, as our every thoughts and actions have been recorded and will be displayed for our remembrance at that time to be made clear. It will probably be so clear and obvious after reviewing our lives past that we will know of our destiny and we will judge ourselves as to which mansion of heaven we deserve to go.
God is loving and just. God is not the author of confusion.
Don’t be deceived.