Be Prepared

I have decided that this blog seems to be dedicated more to preparing ourselves for the last days and for the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ then anything else. As I read the news and study the scriptures, specifically the Book of Mormon, I see a parallel between the Nephites and the American people. They became prideful, complacent, and forgot God. They also decided to not belief in the traditions of their fathers. Many Americans are doing the same thing. The rising generation are becoming very complacent and prideful. There has also been a movement throughout the country to remove God from every possible facet of society, using the ruse of "separation of church and state" to get those laws passed. We have a government that no longer listens to the people and who are willing to go farther and farther away from what this great nation was founded on, namely the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. It is the principles that are found in those documents that made this nation the envy of the world. Especially considering we are one of youngest nations in the world. We are an independent nation and should always be.

What we as a people, those who still stand for truth, liberty, and justice, need to stop being complacent. We need to stop with the idea that what goes on outside my own little world doesn't affect me. If it doesn't now it soon will. Just as many church members stood up for Proposition 8 in California, we should all be willing, no matter what cost, no matter what the issue, no matter what the consequence, to stand up for what we believe in. As Joseph Smith stated, "It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular, I will always maintain a true principle, even if I stand alone in it.”[1]

We should be as the 2,000 stripling warriors. It was said of them that "they were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity; but behold, this was not all—they were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted. Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him." [2]

Let us all be courageous. Let us all be "true at all times in whatsoever thing [we are] entrusted." Let us each do our best to "keep the commandments of God and...walk uprightly before him." [2]

I might mention, there is a difference between us and the Nephite nation. The entire Nephite nation lost it's way. There was not a single righteous person left in the Nephite nation, except of course for Moroni. In America, we have a lot of righteous people, willing to stand of for what is right, both members and non-members. There will come a time in this country that these people will be called up to overthrow the scourge that taking over this land. When that time comes we must all be prepared.

[1] History of the Church, 6:223; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on Feb. 21, 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois; reported by Wilford Woodruff and Willard Richards.
[2] Alma 53:20-21