What an amazing talk by Elder Neal A. Maxwell -
Years
ago, I wondered over the scriptural imagery of angels waiting “day and
night” for “the great command” to come down and reap the tares in a
wicked and suffering world; it seemed rather eager to me. (See D&C 38:12; D&C 86:5.) Given such massive, needless human suffering, I don’t wonder anymore!
Even so, the final reaping will occur only when the Father determines that the world is “fully ripe.” (D&C 86:7.) Meanwhile, brothers and sisters, the challenge is surviving spiritually in a deteriorating “wheat and tares” world. (See D&C 86:7.)
Yet we must not be intimidated or lose our composure even though the once morally unacceptable is becoming acceptable, as if frequency somehow conferred respectability!
I hear a call to repentance for those indulging in all types of immorality and sexual sin from those words above. It doesn't matter what the world accepts as the new normal, God's law is God's law.
Abortion, which has increased enormously, causes one to ask, “Have we strayed so far from God’s second great commandment—love thy neighbor—that a baby in a womb no longer qualifies to be loved—at least as a mother’s neighbor?”
Text of talk here ~ amazing how everything he shared seems even more relevant today, 20 years later. God bless and help the world, He is in control and my hope is in HIM.
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