Divine Worth

Here are some things to think about. Who are we? Where did we come from? What is our purpose in life? What is our worth?

The world we live in today is full of people who are lost. There are many who struggle with this life, and the challenges that it presents. The world is a difficult place to make our through. It may be difficult even if we have a support structure. There is one that can strengthen us greater then any other though. That person is our father. More specifically, our Heavenly Father. 

Who are we? We are children of a Heavenly Father who loves us very much. We are children of God. We learn this in the book of Romans in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. In Romans chapter 8 versus 16&17 we read: 

"16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."

There is a lot to be learned from these two versus. First we can learn that the Spirit, or the Holy Ghost, is a teacher. He bears witness to our spirit that we are literally children of God. Second we learn just as the scripture says, "we are the children of God." Third we can come to understand that as we are children of God, we have a divine potential to become "joint-heirs wit Christ... that we may be also glorified together." We are children of a loving and all powerful God. This means that we have divine potential to heirs in the kingdom of God with our Savior Jesus Christ.

We can also come to understand that if we are children of God, then we also lived with Him before this life. We read in the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible:

" 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee..." 

The Lord continues to go on and tell Jeremiah that he was chosen as a prophet unto the nations before his mortal existence. We too can liken this scripture to ourselves. God knew us before this life. He created us spiritually before he ever created us physically.

So, what then is our purpose? Our purpose in this life is to reach that Divine Potential that we were born with. As a Book of Mormon Prophet taught his son:

" 32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors."

We are here on Earth to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. He loves us, and because He loves us, He gives us the tools that we need to accomplish that purpose. Through sincere scripture study, prayer, faith, repentance, baptism by immersion, receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end, we can prepare ourselves to meet God. We can realize our Divine Worth, by performing righteous labors.