Acquiring the Mind of the Father Posted by Jeff

I once read that the Holy Spirit is the Mind of The Father and of The Son. The same teacher later revealed the Holy Ghost to be a personage of Spirit distinct from The Father and The Son. These ideas seemed at first to contradict, but I think I have found a deeper meaning behind them - or perhaps a concept entirely apart from the intended meanings:

To "acquire" the Mind of the Father (and of The Son) is to reach a point during or after our life when our own decisions are made with the ultimate wisdom and goodness. When God can fully and completely trust us to decide with our own freedom of choice and intellect what must be done in any scenario. These decisions must be made in complete love.

In no way is this a forceful thing, or becoming a predictable "robot," but rather, it is attaining an absolute thorough understanding of the question 'why?' Why does Father make the laws He does? Why does Father allow things to be the way they are? Why doesn't Father make it easier? These are just a few good questions to demonstrate the point. Once we understand why, once we have "grown up", we may find ourselves worthy of becoming Holy Spirits, as mentioned in one of my most recent blog posts. We will share the same mind of The Father and of The Son, and will be entrusted with more privileges and responsibilities than we can now imagine.

The Holy Spirit, meaning the legions of Holy Spirits, are all those disembodied Spirits who share the Mind of Father, in the sense of being a trusted representative of Him, whose presence is always as though He had been there Himself.

This is something we should seek after ourselves. The more we can understand why God does the things he does, the better equipped we will be to handle the challenges of life, and to love our fellow man with the kind love of Deity, boundless and without reservation.