Who is God The Eternal Father?

God, the Supreme Creator of all things is a perfect being who knows all things did not achieve His exalted state without great effort. He progressed line upon line and little by little was able to attain his glorious perfected state. He was and is obedient to all the laws and principles of the gospel and He is subject to all the laws that govern the universe. He had to study, work, and learn just as we are doing right now on this earth. As a perfected being He is able to progress eternally through His spiritually created offspring. We are these spirit children that He has begotten, and as such, He is our Spiritual Father. He is also the Literal and physical father of Jesus Christ.

As any mortal father can attest, fatherhood brings love. We are imperfect and still feel this overwhelming love for our children so the magnitude of love a perfected Father in Heaven must feel for us, His children, is incomprehensible. As a perfected being, He feels perfect joy and desires nothing more for His children than for us to become perfect as He is and feel the same joy He feels. Since He has already made the journey to perfection, He perfectly knows what it requires and has provided a plan for all of His children to attain the same state that He has. His plan is perfectly just yet merciful too. It provides us with our agency so we can progress without being forced and grow in knowledge and wisdom with each time we exercise this agency. God will never take our agency from us. We can know that this plan is perfect because God is perfect and cannot lie or He would cease to be perfect. We can trust that our loving Heavenly Father will do nothing that would not lead to our eternal happiness and joy.

Part of the plan Heavenly Father has for us to become like Him is to physically become like Him. He has a perfect and immortal physical body of flesh and bone. We were created first as spirits, but we now have bodies of flesh and blood. Our bodies will one day become perfect like our Father’s body. The other part of the plan was to become like our Heavenly Father in glory. The way we do that is by obeying the commandments and laws that He has given to us. These laws are many and will be discussed later. We also know that our Heavenly Father is no respecter of persons and holds all of His children to the exact same standard of excellence. He will not judge one more harshly than another and we will all be blessed equally for being obedient. We also know that He is personally involved in helping us reach these lofty goals. Although we are not in His presence, we are allowed access to Him through prayer and are guaranteed that He will hear and answer our prayers. The answer may not come when or in the form we desire, but it will come. He knows each one of us personally and by name. He knows our strengths and our weaknesses and He will give us what He knows will allow us to be happy. Does this mean life will be easy? Not at all, but it does mean that if we are obedient all of our experiences here on earth will be for our benefit and will help us become more like God.

God is the ruler of the universe and is aware of the most minute particle. We are His children and as such have the opportunity to become as He is. The plan of salvation has been given to us by our Heavenly Father in order to accomplish this perfection. We can’t do it alone, but we can do it if we are obedient to the laws of the plan. Undoubtedly, God loves each one of us more than we can currently comprehend. He wants us to succeed and He wants us to be happy. We just have to have the faith to believe Him and follow what He teaches us to do.