The Savior

Sunday, January 10, 2010

I would like to comment on 2Nephi 15 20-21. The world is a very confusing place and I think Isaiah describes that when he says, ""Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Sometimes in the world, the lines between right and wrong seem blurry and confusing. What used to be clearly and universally accepted as wrong, is now being embraced as okay or even right. I think same-sex marriages is a great example. Just 10 years ago, there would have been no debate at all. There were no same-sex displays of affection on television or in the newspaper. Now, it seems like people who advocate for traditional marriage are being called bigots and are scorned. Another example I read about recently is a minister somewhere in the Midwest who told his congregation that it was okay to steal from stores, as long as you really needed the items and as long as it was from a big chain store like Walmart or Target. I see the children I teach at school confused by the discrepancy between what some of them see at home and what they are taught in DARE. One little 10-year old girl doesn't even know how many brothers and sisters she has because her mother has been with so many partners over the last several years. I hope that we can be clear in our own minds about right and wrong and teach the children we have and will have about how to discern between good and evil and about how important it is to follow the counsel of the living prophets.

1 comment:

Eagle Stake Primary said...

The neat thing is that if we listen to the prophets and read the scriptures, we will never be confused about what is right and wrong. I have an example. Years ago when I was serving in the primary presidency in Caldwell, it was my turn to teach sharing time. The sharing time outline is created by the General Primary Presidency, under direction of the prophet, the year before and given out at the beginning of each year, so each week a topic for sharing time has been predetermined and is listed in the outline. My topic for that week was from the Proclamation, "Marriage between a man and a women is ordained of God." It was the same week that the gay marriage debate in Massachusetts was all over the news. This was a witness to me that our leaders are truly inspired and that if we go to church, follow the prophet and listen to modern day revelation, that we will be taught the truth.