In the next world, we will finally receive what we have persistently desired and chosen during mortality (Alma 29:4). Individually, we will have made so many incontestable, on-the-record choices. The final outcome, therefore, will be perfectly just, and all mortals will so acknowledge (Alma 29:4; Mosiah 27:31). In effect, we will receive the degree of joy we have demonstrably chosen and which we have developed the capacity to receive… Only in the framework of faith in God’s mercy and justice can we ponder the interplay of agency and joy so central to God’s plan. Of necessity, God’s gift of agency operates in the context of genuine alternatives among which we choose. This is a condition fully consistent with God’s plan of happiness. Without the very important condition of agency amid alternatives, life would be an undifferentiated “compound in one” (2 Nephi 2:11). God’s creations would then be without real purpose, and His plan would certainly not be worthy of being cal
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