This is in response to Jacque's reply to my 'Partisans' post. As it got longer, I decided to make it its own separate post.
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We don't need a strong political leader, or leaders, as much as we need a righteously principled public who recognizes that there are some things that cannot and should not be compromised on. As soon as politics becomes appeasement of the masses, the masses have declared that they wish to be slaves, and are quickly treated as such.
Remember that king Noah in Mosiah was a very popular king who ruled by the adoration of his people. They were stripped of their liberties, stripped of their property, stripped of their morals under his leadership and they reveled in their glory. When Enoch was shown the world in the time of Noah (and the ark) and beheld their marvelous civilization - they attended the operas, flocked to the art galleries, sipped tea and nibbled crumpets while discoursing elegantly - he beheld the Lord weeping and couldn't understand it. Then the Lord said, "Let me show you their private lives," and pulled away the mask of the facade of their civilization. It was then Enoch wept bitterly and declared that they deserved to be wiped utterly from the face of the earth.
Again, and again, it is the cleansing of the inner vessels that is required, not the championing of a great leader. Society is merely the shadow of the people, and if it is crooked and malformed, nothing can straighten it but by fixing that from which it is cast. Right now in society we are merely shifting the light source and playing architectural games with the surface the shadow is being cast on to make it appear correct. A whole other segment is gaining traction by proclaiming that the distorted pattern is so much better than the old plain one because it has so much more 'character' or 'individuality'. Stability, peace, and prosperity have never been, and never can be built on the back of a hunchbacked drunken jester staggering to the broken tune of a malicious pied piper.
Apparently it's statements like that last sentence that get me in trouble at church...
ReplyDeleteTruth usually does hurt, and those who have bought into the easy lies don't want to be reminded of their folly.
ReplyDeleteI wish we would focus more on the Savior's commandments (gee, He did say "If ye love ME, keep them"!) and less on the fact and reality of His Atonement. Our predecessors in the Restoration pretty much had that down--they understood that He would make up the difference *after all that we can do*. Now we expect Jesus to push us to the Celestial Kingdom in wheelchairs, not march up to the gate with us and pay the couple of cents we lack for the price of admission.
Until we are willing to work to cleanse ourselves of the natural man, we will be unwilling to work to fix anything else, and will keep plugging our ears trying not to hear Satan's laughter.
I love the descriptive picture of a Celestial Kingdom with a wheelchair escalator. We are dealing with something like that in my extended family. It amazes me that when it comes to keeping the commandments a "righteous" person can turn a blind eye for "exceptions". Christ never said that there would be exceptions for those who are able to choose the right.
DeleteLol. I had a hard time posting a comment... Guess I should use my Google more often. ^_^
ReplyDeleteWhat this all reminds me of is this: Life *is* choice. What we choose now will be what we have in the eternities to come.