Getting ready to jump on what will probably be my last flight. I hope not, but the way things are happening so quickly, it’s very possible. I have a few thoughts that have been on my mind about the order of heaven and who we are created to be, meaning independent beings who were created to be free.
I believe in life there comes a time when you’re not supposed to be directed and told what to do with every decision you need to make. Which is actually preparing us for heaven. I know that seems like a harder concept for people who like, or are used to being told what to do in a society that gives marching orders, but we actually weren’t designed for such an order.
In the process of a child, to adult, to parent, do parents continue to call their own parents (now grandparents) over and over and over to be told how to raise their own children? Or do decisions need to be made by trial and error with common sense?
In the highest of the high (1st Cor 15:40) there will be what we should call for purposes of this open FB post, “leaders” in heaven. I don’t believe God is looking to surround Himself with followers who are going to sit and ask Him question after question, over and over and over. Why? He has His own kingdom to attend to, and they kingdom doesn’t have time, or order, of micro managing.
So what of us? Does God want us to become like Him or doesn’t He? What does “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect” really mean?
26 For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward.
27 Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;
28 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.
29 But he that doeth not anything until he is commanded, and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart, and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned.” D&C 58
Knowing this, could it be that we sometimes get exactly what we deserve with law that’s a lot lower than a higher law? Simply because we don’t know HOW to make a decision?
Also could it be (like in the Garden of Eden) that sometimes God gives his children contradictory commandments that we must “break” in order to uphold a higher law of believing there’s much much more to the story?
Captivity or Liberty? Which do we want?
In any event, I believe the highest degree kingdom of heaven will be filled with beings that don’t need to be told what to do anymore. Who understand the principles of heaven and act accordingly to that law with truth and light.
How do you measure a true leader? Well, you measure a true leader by how many leaders they have created, not the other way around.
It seems hell will be filled with followers who don’t know what to do; beings who don’t know who they really are, or why things operate in the universe the way they operate upon principles of freedom and agency. And it seems Satan will be their “leader”. Does a dictator ever want to share his power? Does a dictator want you to think? No. The devil is a dictator.
God is a leader who makes decisions on His own. He isn’t taking marching orders from anywhere or anyone else. What, do you not think God still makes decisions? YES! And it just happens He is right 100% of the time. “And there is nothing that the Lord thy God shall take in his heart to do but what he will do it.” Abraham 3:17
Further, God still has a conscience! He’s not a robotic machine. And He didn’t create us to be either. He literally wants us to sit down in His throne .. Jesus said, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” Rev 3:21
Jesus also said,
“21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they (meaning us) also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” John 17
God wants leaders. Especially right now in the last days. And especially when governments and politicians will continue to USE churches for their motives and agendas.
Besides the City of Enoch, the small minority in the scriptures questioning the overreaching government were ALWAYS right once their stories were written. Not saying they were perfect, or always full of love, but they were ALWAYS on the right side of history. And those “religious extremists” we sometimes read about, who ended up leading the small minorites, usually always seal their testimony by blood, and it’s usually always not a fun way to go out. But sometimes that’s what God requires for His strongest soldiers on the front line. Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like the pattern.
Again, I believe Heaven will be full of people who knew and now know how to decide. Every decision. And ironically that’s the very reason why He sent us down here, to CHOOSE to come back to Him, and become like Him; and not with force. God is Liberty and Liberty is God.
