The MOST Important Thing for Fulfillment

Tom Sheppard

11/30/2021

The single most important thing you need to know to help you live a happy and fulfilling life is that you are a literal child of God.

Even many of those who believe in God don't believe or understand that we are literally his children.  They have bought into the tripe peddled by philosophers and apostates that says we are creations of God and thus his metaphorical children.

They deny the explicit language in the Holy Bible and other scriptures which tell us the humanity is created in the image of God.  We are in the image of God in the same way children are created by their parents in the image of their parents.

I will concede that if we were just guessing about all this, or making it up, it would be the pinnacle of pretention to assert that we are literal children of God.  Unfortunately for all the philosophers who try to dilute scriptural truths by calling them metaphors, the idea that we are created in the image of God and are his children came directly from God himself.  It is a message he has reiterated throughout time.

When Adam first opened his eyes in the Garden of Eden, he saw God.  He and Eve walked and talked with God.  They could see that they looked like him and he told them they were his children.  That knowledge wasn't wiped from their minds when they were cast out of Eden.  They carried it with them and taught their children the true nature of God and our relationship to Him.

The scriptures record that some time later God revealed himself to the prophet Enoch.  Enoch walked with God.  Just as Adam had, Enoch was able to bear first hand witness of the true nature of God and our relationship to Him.  Although Enoch had likely been taught all these things before he was called, after his call, he could testify of them through his first-hand knowledge.

Abraham is called the Father of the Faithful.  He obtained great promises from God and talked with God face-to-face on several occasions. This would allow him too as a first-hand witness of the true nature of God and our relationship to Him.

Moses talked with God face to face as a man talks with his friend, according to the scriptures.  That means that when the Israelites were led out of Egypt they were led by someone who was able to tell them from personal experience the true nature of God and our relationship to Him.  Those Israelites who tried to make it all a metaphor and set up a golden calf and called it God, were destroyed.  Likewise all those who think that God as our father is a metaphor wander in a wilderness of doubt and are destroyed by their despair.  That is a metaphor.

Jesus of Nazareth was threatened with death more than once because of his assertion that he was a literal son of God.  He repeatedly taught the true nature of God and our relationship to Him.  He said, "if you have seen me, you have seen the Father."  Further, when Jesus appeared to his Apostles after his resurrection from the dead it was clear that they recognized him and saw him as a man, similar to them.

In these latter days we are not left without witnesses to this key point either.  In the Spring of 1820 a young boy in upstate New York had the heavens opened to him in response to his earnest prayer.  He saw God the Father and Jesus Christ as two separate and distinct personages, in form and shape like man.  In seconds that young boy knew as fact more about the nature of God and our relationship to Him than all the religious doctors for the past 1,500 years combined.  He knew first hand, while they were struggling to reconcile what they could imagine with what they read, and so dismissed this foundational fact as a metaphor.

Understanding the true nature of God and our relationship to Him is foundational to our happiness because that one fact alone gives meaning to everything else.  This fact lets us know that God is our parent and as a perfect parent all he does is designed to help us fulfil our greatest potentials and to be happy.  It means that God created this amazing world, with all its beauty and complexity, out of love for us, his children.  It means that he allows the presence of evil in this world because of his wisdom and love for us requires that we have freedom of choice and the ability to learn from our mistakes, and the mistakes of others. It means that He will not leave us without the benefit of his personal guidance and tender care over our lives.

As children we often misunderstand or fail to comprehend the reasons and objectives driving the actions of our parents.  Further, our parents are imperfect and so their intentions and actions may go astray.  God is a perfect parent and loves us perfectly.  We may not understand all his actions, but we can have perfect faith that all He does and allows to happen will, if we heed Him, be turned to our ultimate benefit.

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Tom Sheppard is a business consultant and coach to small business owners and individuals. He is a recognized author with dozens of titles in business and fiction to his credit. One of his endeavors is to help those who want to see their own book in print. He does this through his trademarked Book Whispering Process (TM).

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