God is our Loving Heavenly Father

It's been a while since I've last blogged. Forgive my tardiness. I was lying in bed the other night contemplating the complexity of life and it hit me like a tonne of bricks; I need to blog about what has changed my life. So, I shall take you all on a journey in my own words and thoughts about what I know to be true. I'll be straight to the point and also fun with it all. It'll be transitional, If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to ask.

There is so many different beliefs about Deity and what it is. Who is God? What is God? Why is there a God? Is there even a God? I'm here to tell you with the entirety of my heart and with soberness that there is a God and He is the father of our spirits. Here is the scriptural foundation:

"...we are children of God:" Romans 8:16

"...we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold..." Acts 17:29
"...Father of Spirits..." Hebrews 12:9

 Yes, you have two 'daddies', how do you feel about that? You have a father temporally and spiritually. He has a body that is glorified and perfected. He loves us. He's chuffed to bits when we do what is right and cries with us when we suffer.

How do you show your love to your parents? You do what they ask of you and obey them, right? Thus showing them respect. It's the same with our Loving Heavenly Father, by obeying His commandments and making right choices we express our love for Him. Love should be our driving force in obeying Heavenly Father but He even promises us in Doctrine and Covenants 82:10 :

“I the Lord am bound when ye do what I say. But when ye do not what I say ye have no promise.”

Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
We'll get into this later on.

How about that? Our perfect Father in Heaven has provided us, His Children, with a way to be successful in this life and to return to His presence. However, we must be pure and clean in order to do so. Disobedience moves us away from Him. The focal point of our Father's plan is Jesus Christ's Atonement which includes his suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and death on the cross, it ends with his Resurrection. Through the Atonement we can be alleviated from feelings of guilt and shame that come from sin.

Random side thought; As son's and daughters of our loving Heavenly Father we can become just like Him, Romans 8:17.