I am a Child of God...

 
Here are a few thoughts about the relationship of God and Man.  Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His son Jesus Christ, it is known that we are created in their image.
 

The mantra of President Lorenzo Snow came about in 1840 while he was in Nauvoo, Illinois...
“the Spirit of the Lord rested mightily upon me—the eyes of my understanding were opened, and I saw as clear as the sun at noonday, with wonder and astonishment, the pathway of God and man. I formed the following couplet which expresses the revelation, as it was shown me. …
  “As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be.”
 
On that same line, here is one thing I do not remember ever understanding but has now changed how I feel about who I am and what I can do in this life and in the life here after ..... 
President Kimball taught,    “God has taken these intelligences, given to them spirit bodies, and given them instructions and training. Then he proceeded to create a world for them and sent them as spirits to obtain a mortal body, for which he made preparation. And when they were upon the earth, he gave them instructions on how to go about developing and conducting their lives to make them perfect, so they could return to their Father in heaven” 
 "Our Great Potential" Apr 1977
 "There is a sentiment among many in the world that we are the spirit creations of God, just as a building is the creation of its architect or a painting the creation of its painter or an invention the creation of its inventor. The scriptures teach, however, a much different doctrine. They teach that we are more than creations of God; they teach that we are the literal spirit offspring or children of God our Father.
1 What difference does this doctrinal distinction make? The difference is monumental in its consequence because our identity determines in large measure our destiny.
For example, can a mere creation ever become like its creator? Can a building ever become an architect? A painting a painter? Or an invention an inventor? If not, then those who believe we are creations of God, rather than His spirit offspring, reach the inevitable conclusion that we do not have the capacity to become like our creator, God. In essence, their doctrine of identity has defined and dictated a diminished destiny."

"Our Identity and Destiny" Elder Tad R Callister
BYU Campus Educaton Week, 14 August 2012

President Monson taught, "decisions determine our destiny". 
"Ponder the Path of Thy Feet"  2014 October
  If we understand that we truly are children of God we should make better decisions and understand what our destiny could be, when we make great decisions.                                         
    
"Though the infant may be very ignorant, yet there are possibilities in it that by passing through the various ordeals of childhood to maturity enable it to rise to a superiority that is perfectly marvelous, compared with its infantile ignorance."
Teachings of the Prophets

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