Living Up to Your Commitment
A rather unique doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reveals that all of us had an existence before birth as spirit children of God. The Bible mentions this in reference to Jeremiah (1:5) and Job (38:4, 7). Revelations 12:7 talks of the "war in heaven", where the spirit children of God chose to follow either Jehovah (Christ) or Lucifer (Satan). Satan's followers were cast down and Christ's followers were prepared to come to earth through birth. When you chose Christ before you were born in mortality, it wasn't just a choice, it was a commitment . You said you would follow Christ - that is why you are here. Mortality is called a lot of things, but it may be thought of like a very extended military "boot camp". It is designed to ascertain if you are qualified to be part of God's "army". The biggest thing to remember is that you committed to this. You enlisted in God's development program. I suppose you can sa...