Week 4 Child of God

I am a child of God.  He has sent me here.  

Has given me an earthly home with parents kind and dear.

If only everyone knew whole heartedly these few simple words.  I've heard them said so many times, at times I forget what they mean to me and to my family.  We hope to begin our lives in a loving home on this earth.  We learn that God is our Heavenly Father and has sent us here to gain a body and live our earthly life with a great capacity to love.  We then grow up to become young adults and seek out our earthly companion in hopes that we can live our lives with them for all eternity. 

This marriage we seek to have is a covenant marriage with Christ at the head of our relationship and each of us bound together by covenants that we will keep for the eternities.  As we marry and begin raising our families we need to surrender completely, obeying God and sacrificing for each other so they may discover an "incomprehensible joy" that Alma states in Alma 28:8. Covenants, commitments and vows are the basis of beginning a new relationship.  These words seem to have so little meaning any more.  We must learn the words and try and remember what they truly mean as we head for difficult times and uncharted waters in our relationships.

What a wonderful blessing it is to have a spouse and children to live with each day. An honor to serve and be with for now and the eternities if sealed together in the Holy Temples of the Lord.  We must do our part to teach our young ones the importance of these covenants and truly desire them these beautiful blessings.  We must go to the temple to be good examples to our children and show them how important it is to serve those that have passed on, love our families deeper, turn our hearts to the fathers, be endowed with power from on high, and receive the key of knowledge of God.  When we do this our children will be blessed and our mortal life will be full of joy and posterity.