“The
Eternal Father well understood the diverse natures and varied capacities of His
spirit-offspring; and His infinite foreknowledge made plain to Him, even in the
beginning, that in the school of life some of His children would succeed and
others would fail; some would be faithful, others false; some would choose the
good, others the evil; some would seek the way of life while others would elect
to follow the road to destruction.
“He
further foresaw that death would enter the world, and that the possession of
bodies by His children would be of but brief individual duration. He saw that
His commandments would be disobeyed and His law violated; and that men, shut
out from His presence and left to themselves, would sink rather than rise,
would retrograde rather than advance, and would be lost to the heavens.
“It
was necessary that a means of redemption be provided, whereby erring man might
make amends, and by compliance with established law achieve salvation and
eventual exaltation in the eternal worlds…..It was not His design that the souls
of mankind be lost; on the contrary it was and is His work and glory, “to bring
to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39).
“The
offer of the firstborn Son to establish through His own ministry among men the
gospel of salvation, and to sacrifice Himself, through labour, humiliation and
suffering even unto death, was accepted and made the foreordained plan of man’s
redemption from death, of his eventual salvation from the effects of sin, and
of his possible exaltation through righteous achievement.”
-
(James
E. Talmage, “Jesus the Christ” p 18)
FATHER’S CHARGE:
Long ago,
When you lived in my arms
You wanted to fly
In the vast expanse of the skies.
I gifted you wings,
And promised I would
Teach you to fly.
Just remember, I am here, but
It is your turn now,
To rise.
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
(Art: All Is Calm by Gabriel Heaton)
