As I teach the primary kids lately about God's plan, and the Council in Heaven, and then the ensuing war that broke out over who would be the savior, I can't help but have it impressed on my mind how important this one fact is: that we are free to act and choose for ourselves. The events that took place before the world was even formed emphasize this one fact. God, our Father, chose to allow a large portion of His children (a third) to be lost over this one principle freedom. It is sometimes glossed over in discussion, but it is a very key point of the plan. Without it, we wouldn't have progressed and gained what we need in order to get to our Heavenly Father. He loves us so much, and I'm sure it must have pained Him to lose so many of His children, but it had to happen in order to realize the agency that we all enjoy today.
And what do we do with that agency, that freedom to choose and act for ourselves?
That is the next logical question. If such an awful price was paid for such a thing, it certainly must be worth making the right choices for. I'm sure it pains our Heavenly Father even more to see some of us go down the wrong path, but He will not take away our ability to choose the path that we will take.
That being said, we can choose which path we take, but as is hinted out in the scripture, that the choices come with their own natural consequences, which we can not "out out" of. So our whe making a choice, we certainly should keep that in mind.
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