Don’t you remember?
You’ve got the “Power To Choose”!

Before this life , yes, before you were conceived and were born into a child’s body via your parents, you were a “spirit” child of God and lived in heaven as one of God’s spirit children.  Remember?

You were taught “God’s Plan of Life” …where you too, could gain a body of flesh and bones and come to earth and learn to become like Him!  Remember?

You would become a human being and would have free agency to make choices.  What choices?  To choose Right versus Wrong.  Why is that?  That is life’s “test” and how you determine who and what you are!  Jesus came to earth to lovingly show you “the way” to win this “test”.   What is the other choice?  The Wrong!  Satan, a very brilliant spirit, proposed his plan that he make all the spirits of God follow his way and that he would be sure to “save them” when life’s test is over and judgment day comes.   But, he wanted all the glory for it and would take your free agency away to ensure it.  Remember?

Well, we are here.  Because Jesus’s plan was chosen,  you now have a body and an intelligent mind.  You were born into a family with a father and mother.  You have the “Power to Choose” between right and wrong.  Satan lost out and was not even allowed to have a body.  Remember?   Because he lost, he is out to prove himself by tempting you to follow him and to do wrong, also.  On the other hand, Jesus came to earth to show us the way to eternal life and to gently and kindly teach us the good.  Should we make mistakes, he died for us to atone for our sins that we might again be able to return to God.  Remember?

God’s plan of Life was to be like Him, a glorified and perfected being.  A child is supposed to grow and become like his parent.  To have a body and to be able to reproduce His “seed” and find “joy” forever!  Satan tries to stop God’s “seed” by introducing free love, adultery, abortion, divorce, same sex marriages with zero population in mind.  Over 1/3 of today’s families are single parented.  Jesus forgives us and reminds us that through faith, repentance, love and marriage, you and your children can be together forever!  Remember?

Those who do, find that “familiar feeling” inside and do remember!  Their “test” becomes a “testimony” and they desire to be like their eternal father in heaven … to have eternal joy with their partner and offspring, the family.  Remember?

It all seems so simple and yet complicated!  It is the way of life … and you are here with  the “power to choose” which way you want to be and which plan you will follow.  How can we forget?  Don’t you remember?

Alan Osmond
11/17/06