Come To Ourselves

In the parable of the Prodigal Son, the Savior says that the prodigal son “Came to himself.” When Satan tempts us, he is trying to get us to leave behind who we are. He tells us that if we follow him we can become cool and worldly, we can do what we want and not care about the consequences, we can be someone else, be someone better. But when we repent, we come back to ourselves, to who we really are. And who are we? We are sons and daughters of God, born with divine potential, possessing the power to choose for ourselves what we will make of our lives and the world in which we live. When we look at Jesus Christ and God the Father, they are the same in powers and intelligence and temperament. The Son and the Father are made of the same kind of stuff, they are the same kind of being, and Jesus Christ is a God not just because He became like the Father and did what the Father would do, but Because He more than anyone who was ever born on this Earth became and lived and did what the true version of Himself would do. Just like the Savior, we’re made out of the same kind of stuff as God the Father, we’re the same kind of being. To become like God is the same as becoming like who we were born to be, and the more like our true, real selves we become, the more we “come to ourselves”, the more like God we are, and the closer we come unto God.