Personal Progression Carries Forward (05/04/2019)

I'm reading in 3 Ne 14.  Christ says 'strait' is the way.  I was writing about how we grow up with lots of target rings which create imperfections in us, but we can still be on a 'narrow' path of our own learning and perfecting and leading us to heaven, even if we are not perfect in the process.

Then a series of concepts struck me.  Our experiences and traumas give us target rings which lead to imperfections on our part.  The shock events stem from not knowing that we are valuable children of God and that He will always provide for us, no matter how rough life gets.  I have memories of understanding at non-verbal ages.  Different people have variying insights into life at various ages which, I propose, are a direct result of who they were spititually in the premortal life, not just their life experience here.  

So, Christ's great advancement of who he was spiritually before he was born was the way he was able to:

1    understand perspective that allowed him to see things in a way to not get target rings and to remain in a perfect condition.  Not all target rings come from abuse.  Many are just things that happen for which we are not prepared causing us to conclude we're on our own (no divine father helping us) or we're not OK (no divine relationship with God).  If Jesus' spirit was so much more advanced than ours are, he would have that perspective remain stronger than anyone else ever has been able to.

2 Because he was so spiritually advanced, he was in tune with spiritual revelation so well and so early.  That is why he was able to be taught by angles at early ages.  

The point is that he did not receive an  unfair advantage of being taught by angles that the rest of us did not have which enabled him to be perfect.  One may say that, 'If I had angles teach me in my childhood, I could have been perfect too.'  However, he had angles teach him BECAUSE he was that "in tune,"  NOT he was that "in tune" BECAUSE he had angles. 

This whole thing has given me such a greater awe and respect for him.  He was perfect in the permortal life. That perfection carried on into his mortal life and was strong enough to tame the weaknesses of the flesh.  How much greater my love and gratitude to him for being willing to suffer so that my imperfections can be coreccted and not hold me back for eternity.

References:

Alma 13:5 - 3
3 Ne 14:14
DC 88:40
Alma 12:10
DC 71:6
Matthew 13:12 (11-16)
Isaiah 6:9-10 (the people were not willing to)