“In matters of covenantal purity, the sacred is too often being made common, the holy is too often being made profane. To any who are tempted to walk, talk or behave in these ways—don’t expect it to lead to peaceful experience; I promise you in the name of the Lord, it won’t.”
#JeffreyRHolland Apr 2021
Elder Holland seemed sad this #GeneralConference. I think we underestimate the weight of burden on the backs of the GAs. It must be a bit like like Moses coming down from Sinai w/God’s word to deliver & finding Israel dancing riotously before an idol.
Elder Holland seemed sad this #GeneralConference. I think we underestimate the weight of burden on the backs of the GAs. It must be a bit like like Moses coming down from Sinai w/God’s word to deliver & finding Israel dancing riotously before an idol.
Moses beholding the wicked scene from the mount, Noah rebuffing a people so wicked that God would destroy them with flood, Moroni watching his people sin themselves to destruction—general societal soul-sickness creates a great deal of heartsickness in disciples of Christ.
We may mistake this heartsickness in ourselves as an indication that the enemy is winning. He would certainly like us to think so. But natural abhorrence of evil is a sign of a healthy spirit; the adversary is winning when we *stop* feeling it—when our hearts finally wax cold.
Do not lower your spirit temperature to become comfortable in a vapid society. Don’t adapt to a toxic environment. Don’t try to solve pain by deadening your nerve endings, by shutting down or giving up. A healthy spiritual immune system will find evil provoking. It’s supposed to.
There’s no healthy way to be invulnerable. Love & sorrow enter thru the same door in our hearts. To enjoy one, we accept the other. Survival in these societal conditions requires not less feeling, but better response.
When battered, we don’t bow to the abuser but at the feet of the Healer. When downcast, we don’t pull ourselves up on the boot of him who kicked us, but on the arm of the Rescuer. The cure isn’t found in the pits of the dying but on the mount of the Christ who conquered death.
You’ll be sad. Sad things exist. You will be heartsick, bc people do things that sicken the heart. Feel it, but don’t fear it. Don’t live in despair. Let the feelings pass thru you; this is normal & healthy. Then grab the iron rod & pull yourself up. God is with you.
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