This great war over divine identity rages fiercely as Satan’s proliferating arsenal aims to destroy our belief in and knowledge of our relationship with God. And … Moses looked upon Satan and said: Who art thou? For behold, I am a son of God.” 6 Following that experience, “Satan came tempting” with subtle yet vicious intent to distort Moses’s identity, “saying: Moses, son of man, worship me.

Moses learned of his divine heritage talking with the Lord face-to-face.

“When you … see our Father,” Brigham Young described, “you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and he will receive you into his arms, and you will be ready to fall into his embrace and kiss him.” 5 The Great War over Divine Identity However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Packer’s words are plain and precious: “You are a child of God. I invite each of us to open our hearts to the Holy Ghost, who “beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” 3 Drawn to little voices coming from the same Primary room I attended decades ago, I walked in the back and observed caring leaders teach this year’s theme: “I Am a Child of God.” 1 I smiled as I remembered patient and loving teachers who, during our singing time back then, would often look at me-that rambunctious little boy at the end of the pew-as if to say, “Is he really a child of God? And who has sent him here?” 2 Recently I went to church with my sweet mother at our old rock chapel.

The Three Sisters by Bryan Taylor