"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 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." (Romans 8: 16-17)
Gordon Hinckley comments on this reality and challenges us to “rise to the stature of the divine within you. … yours is a godly inheritance. “I am a child of God” is not an idle or meaningless statement. You were there “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons [and daughters] of God shouted for joy.” (Job 38:7.) You brought some of that inheritance with you when you came “trailing clouds of glory … from God who is our home.”* You were there when “there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. … (Revelation 12:7)
"You were among those who chose to follow the plan of Him who became our Redeemer rather than the plan of him who became our adversary. Great and marvelous is your place in the plan of God our Eternal Father. … rise to the stature of that divinity. In that effort make the world in which you live a better place for yourself and for all who will come after you." Gordon Hinckley
*William Wordsworth,
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality
from Recollections of Early Childhood,” st. 5.
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