990. The Lord’s Divine Positioning of His Children By Larry Barkdull · January 10, 2018 -- Very inspiring!
The Lord’s Divine Positioning of His Children By Larry Barkdull · January 10, 2018 Editor’s Note: Our friend and longtime Meridian writer Larry Barkdull recently passed away. To remember and honor him this is one of a series of his past articles that we are republishing regularly. Are children indiscriminately shuffled into families by a cosmic roll of the dice? Or are they strategically positioned by a divine Hand? If Heavenly Father’s house is a house of order, if God organizes all the stars in heaven to follow precise orbits so that they might stand “for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years,” [i] if He forms every creation to exist delicately in a balanced ecosystem, if by design He places all truth and intelligence into specified spheres so that they might act for themselves [ii] -why would God leave the placement of his children to chance? Of course, He does not. Countless ages of premortal obedience and righteous livin...