Having Begun Again To Give A Damn
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:12 pm
Believing people are genuinely capable of real love and are not as fake as their religion makes me think they must be I have noticed myself getting ideas that actually might help those with problems about faith and God.
The biggest problem most faith fallen manifest is grumbling about how God is NOT present and not helping the world.
Such is the price of Free Agency having to suffer in a world without God in militant presence as he truly is in other circumstances like in the spirit world where the souls of men go after they die.
He is God after all. If he were here to where he WOULD keep all things perfect he would HAVE to be followed and obeyed or we get whacked out of existence. So he must forebear leaving a fallen world somewhat to itself. Not altogether abandoning it as he keeps all things in marvelous order just leaving man out of a closed loop.
Rather he has given us a gospel where he can participate with us in the world but not be counted as being here to a point where anybody's free agency is compromised.
This makes plain that the acceptable sacrifice for getting the gospel right is to subject your Free Agency to God by covenant. As King Benjamin said becoming as a little child who is subject to his father in all things.
Your free agency does not vaporize. You always own it, but have made a covenant to keep it subject to the will of God. Like a marriage covenant to be faithful. You CAN mess around but it might cost you your marriage.
In the land of the free and the home of the brave where self reliance and gumption and self certitude is all in all we can see why the early LDS Gentiles repudiated the gospel and ransacked it after their own likeness in the image of the world. Excellence is king. None have subjected their all unto God. None will. Not so long as there is a buck to be made and honors to win and trusts and confidences to be prized and kept tenaciously for an abundant life amidst good people.
Who is going to overcome the power of this world? In this age? Hardly anyone. But still there ya have it. God is as near and as powerfully involved as you will come unto him and take his name upon you with full purpose of heart. It is a marriage and if you love him and refuse to live without him, if you want to know him and want to believe that he is real then seek him as he is eager for it. The prospect of one turning away from the world, this modern world, is of such a moment in heaven as to make angles gasp in disbelief. The impossibility of saving faith against this age of man makes it all the more joyous that it ever occurs.
Set everything aside for a season and seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. So few are bothering with it you will not have to fight for attention in this regard. Those addicted to the pablum of being worthy without merit leave it alone.
I think the important point here is to give a plausible reason why God does not interfere in the world even to allowing the worse of it. Is it not bad enough to cause some few to look yet away? How should the evil here not lead a person to want to gain access to God and be in his kingdom and loving care?
The reality of true gospel living is that God IS watching over you precisely as you know he is capable of. Even leading you better than you would invent for yourself with all the freedom in the world. A life with Christ in God is not free of all pain. Hardly. Yet with all the trials is is abundant should all the world turn against you and cast you out and revile you and make life impossible for you to thrive.
The biggest problem most faith fallen manifest is grumbling about how God is NOT present and not helping the world.
Such is the price of Free Agency having to suffer in a world without God in militant presence as he truly is in other circumstances like in the spirit world where the souls of men go after they die.
He is God after all. If he were here to where he WOULD keep all things perfect he would HAVE to be followed and obeyed or we get whacked out of existence. So he must forebear leaving a fallen world somewhat to itself. Not altogether abandoning it as he keeps all things in marvelous order just leaving man out of a closed loop.
Rather he has given us a gospel where he can participate with us in the world but not be counted as being here to a point where anybody's free agency is compromised.
This makes plain that the acceptable sacrifice for getting the gospel right is to subject your Free Agency to God by covenant. As King Benjamin said becoming as a little child who is subject to his father in all things.
Your free agency does not vaporize. You always own it, but have made a covenant to keep it subject to the will of God. Like a marriage covenant to be faithful. You CAN mess around but it might cost you your marriage.
In the land of the free and the home of the brave where self reliance and gumption and self certitude is all in all we can see why the early LDS Gentiles repudiated the gospel and ransacked it after their own likeness in the image of the world. Excellence is king. None have subjected their all unto God. None will. Not so long as there is a buck to be made and honors to win and trusts and confidences to be prized and kept tenaciously for an abundant life amidst good people.
Who is going to overcome the power of this world? In this age? Hardly anyone. But still there ya have it. God is as near and as powerfully involved as you will come unto him and take his name upon you with full purpose of heart. It is a marriage and if you love him and refuse to live without him, if you want to know him and want to believe that he is real then seek him as he is eager for it. The prospect of one turning away from the world, this modern world, is of such a moment in heaven as to make angles gasp in disbelief. The impossibility of saving faith against this age of man makes it all the more joyous that it ever occurs.
Set everything aside for a season and seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. So few are bothering with it you will not have to fight for attention in this regard. Those addicted to the pablum of being worthy without merit leave it alone.
I think the important point here is to give a plausible reason why God does not interfere in the world even to allowing the worse of it. Is it not bad enough to cause some few to look yet away? How should the evil here not lead a person to want to gain access to God and be in his kingdom and loving care?
The reality of true gospel living is that God IS watching over you precisely as you know he is capable of. Even leading you better than you would invent for yourself with all the freedom in the world. A life with Christ in God is not free of all pain. Hardly. Yet with all the trials is is abundant should all the world turn against you and cast you out and revile you and make life impossible for you to thrive.
