The Pathway of the Covenant

 

It began before the Earth was.  God, the Father, called His children into a Heavenly Council to present to them His plan for their further eternal progression. He outlined His plan, explaining what He would do for His children and His expectations of them.

It would later be called the Abrahamic Covenant, but it predated Abraham.  God taught Abraham:

The Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was, and among all these there were many noble and great ones; God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them and he said: These I will make my ruler; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one of them; thou wast* chosen before thou wast* born. (Abraham 3: 22-23)

God's plan included:

• The Creation of a world into which we could be born;
• A mortal body which would then be eligible for eternal progression:
• His guidelines for happiness and growth;
• Our agency so that we could choose for ourselves to obey or to disobey; with consequences for our choices;
• A Savior to redeem us from our unwise choices so that, through repentance, we could one day return to live with Him.

This was His part of the covenant.

God also taught Abraham:

 and he said unto those that were with him: We will go down, for there is space there, and we will take of these materials, and we will make an earth whereon they may dwell; And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them; And they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom as those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever. (Abraham 3: 24-26)

We will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them. That is our part of the covenant: we are to do whatsoever the Lord commands.  

He is the Father of our spirits and we are His children.  On earth, He is our God and we are his people.

* [thou wast = you were]