Mormon Direction

Then, whistle while you work.

The toil and chores of daily worldly life can be taxing, such that it wears on you and seems to drain or sap your energy and enthusiasm. The toil and chores are not just house work or yard work, it refers to the ups and downs of life, your trials and sufferings, frustrations, angers, upsets, burdens and of course, even issues (don’t have issues, then your not paying attention).

So many members just do not know that these daily life toils and chores will have an affect upon faith and belief. So much so that a person can become disillusioned with the Church or people in it because of personal matters of life they struggle with.

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One of the challenges of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is whether a particular doctrine or practice is believable or acceptable. I have read and heard so many claims by ex-Mormons of how they were fooled or blinded to some of the doctrines or activities of the Church.

Some of the common complaints surround tithing, lack of answers to prayers, Adam-God Theory, Blacks previously refused the priesthood, men oriented church, and so on. When I looked at these claims or complaints and the stories behind them I see that they are just personal, which means that their issues are specific to them. For some things the Church has done, such as restrict Black men from the priesthood, are true, but making personal issue out of these things certainly does not gain the ear of the Lord neither does it gain any help or witness from the Holy Ghost. Why is this? It is because making personal issue is the act of contention which is the spirit of contention and such is not of God.

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One day, while in Church, a bishop, stake president or one of the General Authorities of the Church says or does something that upsets you or that you take issue with it. Before you know it you are at odds with the Church and even resign your membership.

Taking issue is dangerous to the health of your faith.
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