27 August 2024

Don't let yourselves be diverted from your Mission


The whole purpose of life is to see if we will let ourselves be diverted from a path toward exaltation. As an example, the temptations of Christ during his fast in the wilderness were done by Satan to try to divert Christ from his mission. Jesus is our example of not being diverted from our mission.

You have to know your mission. Generally, this is to pursue exaltation through getting and keeping covenants. Beyond this, we often have individual missions tied to family, place, or circumstance.

One very large reason to cultivate a personal relationship with the heavens is to determine your individual mission in life and to pursue it rigorously. This mission pursuit was a larger feature of a religious life in the past that needs reviving. This effort requires an active connection with the Father in prayer and cultivating the 'back-channel' of listening to the Spirit to get needed inspiration toward fulfilling your individual mission.

Because your individual mission is unique to you, there is not some one prescribed method to discovering it outside of your desires to learn of it expressed through prayer and then following impressions that you get from the spiritual "back-channel". As you learn to hear and then follow inspiration, you will be led (through something like the Psychic Proximity Principle's "weak magnetism") to your life's mission.

I believe that most of what we call "mental health problems" are tied to essentially being "off-mission", either through having been distracted from it or simply not trying to discover it  People who seem to have their "sh** together" are usually at least on the path toward their mission if not already working it. 

In the https://www.exalts.net simulation, one might get the impression that life is just a pile of good choices made and rewarded, but I can't figure out a way to decently simulate the work of finding your personal mission in life. God knows what it is and will lead you to it through spiritual impressions, but I can't program that! You have to do that work for yourself!