While we were down in CA visiting my family, I went to my dad's Gospel Doctrine class. I really love going to my dad's classes because he is one of the wisest men I know and I feel like I always learn something from him.
This quote from the Gospel Doctrine manual really stood out to me, "God is not only our Ruler and Creator; He is also our Heavenly Father. All men and women are literally the sons and daughters of God. "Man, as a spirit, was begotten, and born of heavenly parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal [physical] body" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith [1998], 335)."
I thought this was a very interesting quote because it tells us that we were spiritually mature before we came to earth. We were not just thrown down here with no experience. We were spiritually mature and we still have that spiritual maturity in us even though we cannot fully remember it. It is also a comforting to know that like our parents here on earth, our Heavenly Father raised us and taught us what we needed to know before he sent us out on our own.
I know that with the Lord we can learn again how to be spiritually mature in this life.
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