God's Dealings with His Children

I was just thinking about how my Father in Heaven deals with His children.  He does not force us to choose Him or choose good over evil.  He speaks and provides all the information we need to make an informed decision, but in the end we have to choose to put ourselves into His hands.  How difficult it would be for me to let my child be hurt as a result of their poor choices, and how precious must be the gift of choice or agency!  However, when I turn to my Father sincerely and diligently, He runs to me through the gift of the Great Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the process I am healed and immediately delivered of the enemies which would bind me.  The healing and deliverance can only come when I choose Him of my own free will and bind myself to Him through covenanting to obey His commandments. 

Joshua told the Israelites ". . .^achoose you ^bthis day whom ye will ^cserve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my ^dhouse, we will ^eserve the Lord." (Joshua 24:15).  Furthermore, the prophet Nephi wrote: "Wherefore, men are ^afree according to the ^bflesh; and ^call things are ^dgiven them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to ^echoose ^fliberty and eternal ^glife, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be ^hmiserable like unto himself.

  And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the great ^aMediator, and hearken unto his great commandments; and be faithful unto his words, and choose eternal life, according to the will of his Holy Spirit;

  And not choose eternal death, according to the will of the flesh and the ^aevil which is therein, which giveth the spirit of the devil power to ^bcaptivate, to bring you down to ^chell, that he may reign over you in his own kingdom."(2 Ne. 2:27-29)