Mormon Direction

Good & Right Things Ignored

I received an email from Google, at least I believe it was from them, about the class action lawsuit against Google by Gmail. The lawsuit was filed by Gmail users who claim that when Google launched their Google Buzz network, Google automatically included and exposed data and contacts of Gmail users to the public. According to the lawsuit, Gmail users accused Google of violating many of the U.S. and California electronic data usage and storage laws as well as other laws pertaining to fair business actions and professional codes. Google denied the allegations. It took many months before Google and the plaintiffs achieved a settlement. You can read this on the “Google Buzz User Privacy Blog” . The settlement appears to apply only to U.S. citizens. You can read more about it on the FAQ page.

What does this have to do with my blog here?

Nothing directly, but the manner and process by which people had to get their privacy rights respected is the point of topic here and with that comes the principles of God about “rights” and responsibility to do the right thing at all times. Basically I am addressing Christian concerns.

All people have the right to privacy, right not to be harassed or violated, right for respect and fair treatment.

It is sad to see that people have to sue others or take legal action against others for breaches of privacy or for breaches of their rights. I have seen this all over the Internet, people posting personal information about others without legal right and other places as Google allowing the violation of privacy or violation of rights to occur on their services doing nothing about it.

What this brings me to say is there is a widespread disrespect and disregard for what is right and proper and this is rampant in the world and on the Internet. Some call it freedom speech, but when a freedom causes infringement on others or harm to others, it is no longer a freedom, but a flagrant violation. God would have nothing to do with people who act in this manner toward others. It is contrary to the economy of God and his Kingdom to allow such behavior to exist. Such flagrant disregard for others is clearly unrighteous, evil and purely selfish and prideful. All aspects of a damned personage.

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I spoke of self-esteem and a relation with God ( see “Self-Esteem and Faith” ). Now I wish to speak of what self-esteem means to me and what works.

The world provides a lot of advice about boosting self-esteem, but the main problem with worldly advice that it does not work well for the faithful, those who abide with God and want to keep themselves spiritually healthy. When I spoke of self-esteem and a relationship with God, I spoke against worldly opinions, ideas and thoughts because they work contrary to gospel principles and faith. I understood what self-esteem meant in regards to faith and from that I understood what it meant to myself in life, both spiritually and temporally

Not long ago, I thought I had good self-esteem, until the Lord led me to see I did not. When I spoke of self-esteem to another, I was also seeing myself and when the Lord turned the light bulb on, I realized that my self-esteem was not what it should have been. In this I realized that God does care about self-esteem and he does teach that low or lower self-esteem is bad for faith because it hampers the person from actually giving their best to God. Sure, God loves us either way, but God loves to see that we perceive ourselves rightly and his love cannot work for us when we allow ourselves or give excuse to lower our self-esteem. Simply, when we reject ourselves, we reject God also because we are in his image and the rejection is of his own image. It is the same as a loving parent feeling rejected when their son or daughter, who are born in their image, rejects themselves. Thus, God loves us to learn to love ourselves in the right way.

What then can we do to raise self-esteem and include our faith in it?

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Everyone deals with shortcomings about their self-esteem or self-image. How they perform at work, at home, in relationships, in their personal or public performances, whether they feel worthy or unworthy. At one time or another, if not repeatedly, everyone has some issue with their self-esteem, but in this struggle, has there been any concern about self-esteem versus faith?

When it comes to faith, it is a matter where each person must take account of themselves and evaluate the nature and degree of their self-esteem and then see how this affects their faith.

Faith is the expression and act of love, devotion and obedience to God and for him. It is the trust in his will and trust that he will help and bless. Faith is also the expression of oneself to God, the who and what we are. In this expression of oneself comes the value of oneself. This personal value is the gift that we, as sons and daughters of God, give to God.

IN the scriptures God speaks about the value of how we give a gift where he said, “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” (1 Cor 2.9:7). Gods speaks of the value of the heart and mind in things that we give to him and to others. Giving our faith grudgingly, is not faith at all. To exercise the commandments of God because you believe you have to, what value is this to God and his kingdom?

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We know of good intelligence and bad. We usually equate intelligence with science or some scholarly knowledge about some subject. Intelligence, people believe, is the ability to figure out problems or devise things that no one else cannot. Intelligence is even equated to those who are crafty, smarter than another to overcome obstacles or make intricate plans. Intelligence is even attributed to the ability to figure out the Rubrics Cube on the first try.

There is one intelligence that no one really pays any attention to and in fact would consider this one as foolish or useless. This is because, this particular intelligence does not seek to “gain” something as the other ones will. With the others, there is notoriety, fame, appeal, importance, even financial advantage. The intelligence that speak of here in this article gains none of those things, because the moment you do, it is no longer that intelligence.

I speak about Intelligence of Good. The ability to know true good and exercise it no matter the circumstance.

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No this is not a TV show series from Britain. This is about people out there that will antagonize and find any perceived fault of another person just to degrade someone else’s beliefs. The Apostles of this Church have repeatedly warned about trying to find fault with each other, with Church leaders or this Church itself. By the same principle that sustains that counsel, it includes how we interact with the world. Why is this? It is because it attracts and calls upon the spirit of falsehood, an ill spirit.

Finding fault or to create upset has, in itself, no intrinsic value. It’s prime purpose is to diminish, to undermine and is used by those who want to impose themselves upon others or have control over someone else. Not to find fault is hard for the inbred Antagonizers. This is because their lives are focused on errors or complaint and seek to get their way. They are a very selfish people and inbred antagonizers do not last very long as members of this Church because they sustain and harbor a very selfish and ill spirit, so when we see “ex-mormon’s” who continue to antagonize, then we can see why they left the Church. They did not worship God, as per the first commandment. 

To these antagonizing people, they remain in a state of misery and carry an ill spirit. There is no light in them simply because they follow a darkening spirit, the “Antagonizer spirit”.

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With the array of differing doctrines in the general Christian community among the many Christian denominations, one wonders who is true and who is not. I say this from the perspective of a new convert or one who is investigating which church to join.

When I researched the many beliefs of the many Christian denominations, I began to find a consistent pattern among all of them. This pattern refers to “perspective”. The thing within each person that determines how he/she will view and comprehend God’s word. It is “perspective” that will either serve a person well or mislead them.

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…and a spiritual mind is one made by faith, not just belief.

Our weakness is found in the things of the carnal mind, the temporal desires that, at times, seem to overwhelm our spiritual focus and faith. It is through this one weakness, the state of mind and heart created by the carnal mind that Satan gets some of his best work done. This is where temptations and carnal desires are felt and experienced. Is it any wonder that the word of God clearly states that the carnal mind is an “enmity” to him?

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To be of God, a person cannot be of a bad spirit. These two cannot co-exist in a person at the same time. A person must abide in the principles and commandments of the Lord in order that they be of God. To represent God, meaning to speak for him, requires a higher responsibility. Yet, there are people out there that will claim they are of God or with Jesus or they represent God. They may know the word of God in the Bible and be able to quote scripture and speak from that standpoint. They may appear to be very intelligent, charismatic, appealing, but how can a member of this Church know who they are really dealing with? Some may feel confused as to whether a person is of God or not?

I hope that I can provide some help, some insight to help fellow members deal with the deluge of self-proclaimed Christians. I will begin by relating this by way of a story.

One day a man was brought into the jail cell for being drunk. When locked behind a cell door, he started to ask for things and was denied. He got angry and accused the prison guard of being a “$&*?;” (using foul words), and told the guard that he (the guard) was a homosexual and an “as***” (foul words). The prisoner then claimed to the guard that the guard should ask God if he (the guard) was an “as***” (and used further references to God in a derogatory manner).

Was this man a “man of God”? – Was this man telling the truth?
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