Have you ever thought there must be something more to life than just living day to day? There is—much more. Your life has a divine purpose.
God, your Heavenly Father, has prepared a marvelous plan for your happiness. When you realize that God has a plan for you, it is easier to understand why you are on this earth. God wants all of His children to progress and become more like Him. This time on Earth provides opportunities for you to grow and progress. Coming here allows you to:
Receive a physical body.
Exercise agency and learn to choose between good and evil.
Learn and gain experience that will help you become more like your Heavenly Father.
Form family relationships that may become eternal.
By following our Heavenly Father’s plan, you—like all of His children—can someday return to live with Him and with your loved ones. You can have greater peace in this life and eternal joy in the life to come.
Perhaps one of the greatest blessings I have received by being a Mormon is a concrete understanding of the purpose of life. We believe that every human being is a literal child of Heavenly Father. We lived with Him in Heaven before we were born on earth. Our purpose in life is to keep His commandments, so that we can be worthy to return to live with our Father in Heaven again after we die. We cannot be worthy without allowing the Atonement of Jesus Christ, the Savior, to cleanse us of sin.
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A lot of people asked me this question on my mission, and, on the flip side, I asked it to a lot of people as well. Many people were surprised when I read them one verse from the Book of Mormon, that being "Adam fell that men might be and men are, that they might have joy." -2 Nephi Chapter 2 Verse 25.
It's simple the purpose of life is to have joy. Now, joy is not fleeting, it doesn't depart when things get rough, it doesn't have negative consequences nor connotations, and you will never be ashamed to be found having a joyful experience. I think of it this way real joy is that which you would be excited to see the Lord join you in your happiness. If it isn't worthy to be in the Lord's presence, it's probably not real joy. Real joy comes from lasting relationships like father and son, mother and daughter, husband and wife, friends that you would stay with forever from experiences which you always look back upon with a happy memory from making promises to God and keeping them from doing that which is right in the sight of the Lord. That is what real joy is, and when you feel that type of joy, you will feel the love that the Lord has for you in that very moment.
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This question started my whole spiritual quest, so it is only most appropriate for me to now answer it.
Mormons believe that we were chosen by the Heavenly Father in the spirit world pre-existence to receive a physical body and to come to Earth to our specific mother and father. We agreed, and we essentially are fighting on Heavenly Father's "side" in the war with Lucifer. It is our spiritual "job" in this world to live a certain way, to use our agency to choose between good and evil, in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father's only son, whom He sacrificed to allow for our atonement to allow for our spiritual progression.
Mormons believe that while here on Earth, we should learn and live more like our Heavenly Father. This is our spiritual quest which is accomplished through our choices. We marry and build our own family, and by following the Scriptures and living accordingly, we receive access to the Temples where eternal ordinances are performed individually and together as a family.
We can be with our family forever, after death, joined together in Heaven, with Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father. We have greater peace in this life and eternal joy in the life to come. This is the purpose of our life here.
Before I understood this and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, my life was reasonably happy but devoid of purpose. Something was missing. I felt incomplete.
Now, I have peace. My soul is soothed.
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I have gotten this question a lot and it has been one I have always heard about but never understood it but as I learned more about our Heavenly Fathers plan for us it started to make more sense. This life it’s a time for us to be happy and grow it’s a time for us to get ready for what’s a head in our existence. This life is a time for us to get ready to meet God again and say I did follow you.
I know that this life is a time for joy and the way I know to have true joy is by having a family. I know that sometimes my family can drive me crazy but that is where I have found all my joy is by helping and just living with my family. I am so excited to have a family of my own, and have a home of love and happiness where we can grow closer to each other and to our Heavenly Father.
As we learn about happiness and joy we also learn about pain and misery that is just a part of this life yes it is hard and sometimes you wish it could just go away but as we learn about both we can appreciate the good from that bad. And I really think that is one of the biggest reasons we are down here is to learn.
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Our main purpose in mortality is prepare to meet God. We also form family relationships that can continue in eternity. After we leave mortality, our lives continue with further purpose to progress eternally, becoming more like God.
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I dare say that there are lots of sub answers to this question the most general answer being to gain a body on earth than be worthey to return and live with our heavenly father again.
but as with all thing people are diffirent so what truly matters to me may not matter as much to you.
So for me the answer is to find Joy through being married into the temple with my true love for time and eternity and raise my future children so that I can keep them for eternity.
althoug I am saddend to say right now I have no prospects at ether of thies.
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We are spiritual offspring of a kind and loving Heavenly Father. We chose to come out of His presence to demonstrate to him our love for him by keeping the commandments. Our Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, came to the earth to take upon himself the pain and suffering for our sins so that we could come back into our Father's presence.
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To become more like Jesus Christ and work towards our potential to "be heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ" (Romans 8:17)
God has given us the resources to fulfill this purpose by giving us 1) a physical body 2) freedom to choose between good and evil and 3) a Savior who makes up for our weaknesses and shortcomings.
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Our Earth was created for the purpose of life and to help "bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39). The creation of our Earth is part of Heavenly Father's plan for our happiness. While preaching the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ commanded: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Time on earth provides opportunities for us to grow and progress, helping us to develop the moral attributes of our Father in Heaven.
We are not alone in this world without divine help. Our Father in Heaven loves us so much that "he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved" (John 3:16-17). Jesus Christ led a perfect example of how we must live. He said "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6). We have the scriptures, living prophets, the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and the example of Jesus Christ to help us become more like our Father in Heaven.
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