Mormon Direction

I have heard many claim entrenchment in their beliefs about their church, their faith, their particular religion, claiming it is God’s. By these firm beliefs, they claim to have a testimony. Many people hear their testimony and hear they firmly believe what they claim. People have heard these firm beliefs from one Christian denomination to the next. Then, when approached by missionaries from this LDS Church, they hear another claim of firm belief. In response, they then stand in doubt because they cannot discern which is true.

To filter through these firm beliefs and to discern what is God’s truth and what is merely a personal belief, we must first consider that a “firmness” in belief is an expression found in many facets of life. It is not specific to religion, it exists everywhere. The phrase “I firmly believe” is a common phrase used by people to proclaim their stance with something or in regards to something.

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We are, yet many fail to see, that the gospel is to mold us, our life into the image of his kingdom. God’s kingdom is eternal, so all things that pertain to eternal life is to become ours, which is in that same image. Eternal law is imperative to live there, this cannot be ignored and we must therefore learn how to live eternal law, as God’s eternal law, which is God’s spiritual law, is what makes God what he is. This eternal law cannot do the same for us until we freely choose to mold ourselves to it and live it also.

How does this work in us?

Eternal law is what establishes order and righteousness in us. We cannot be righteous without the spiritual principles & laws of God, it is impossible. We cannot and must not create our own versions of God’s laws or principles and expect that to make us right, because it will not. Anything made by men (mortal human being) is automatically corrupt and lacking, it can never replace the laws and principles of God. To freely choose God’s spiritual laws and way of life is to forsake that which is of this earth and to abide & endure in the process that God embues into our lives.

Personal righteousness must abide in and live by God’s eternal laws and principles, else it cannot be righteous. Anything made by men, which they call as right, is relative, which is always subject to change. God’s laws are never relative, never change, they are absolute.

Therefore, to be in the image of God requires we become righteous, to live and become the very eternal laws and eternal principles that are never changing.

This, of course, is a process, but the process you now know must occurr in order to live with God.

I had wondered why there are other Christian’s that go around claiming they succeeded in casting out demons or protected others from demon attacks. I wondered how these other Christians, who are not of the Lord’s Church and do not have the Holy Priesthood, can succeed, to any degree, in these efforts? It did not take long for me to see and realize the answer. It is a simple answer and it is how and why Satan does not completely control this world.

The answer is “right” (versus wrong) and free will and choice.

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One day, when I was in the Sunday School Presidency, we had to find a replacement teacher for one of the Sunday school classes. We sat for about thirty minutes, making a list of names of members that would be able to take the calling. Then we spent more time to narrow the list down to three names, making a short list, but once done, we could not come to a decision as to who would be first on the list, which would be our recommendation to the Bishop.

We decided that each of us would silently pray to Heavenly Father as to his will. Once we each completed our prayers, we each silently and separately wrote down what our individual inspiration gave us.  Once done, we each revealed what our inspiration was and the first name we each wrote down was the same person. The second, third and fourth names, from each of us, did not match the order we each gave them.
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A man who is irresponsible about his past, is acting irresponsible in the present, creating irresponsibility for his future.