A Curious Instrument

I did a blog post a little while back about how important our individual choices are to our outcome. However, one should not think that our choices are the sole determinants of our future. God has paved the path and Jesus Christ has cleared that path of many obstacles to our ultimate success. We should each be personally grateful for the labor of Father and Son toward our best outcome. It is disheartening to see so many people grumble and turn away from God with an attitude that the heavens are not doing enough to guarantee everyone's eternal success in the face of bad decisions and lack of decent effort.  So many want exaltation to be a "free" gift that requires nothing more than tearing off wrapping paper or some such and would call such a circumstance "love".  I can only foresee many petulant children shouting at God for not making their exaltation a gaily unearned action and not being handed a fine cake for what looks to be more a matriculation than an...

  Here is some more in the vein of prosperity: And because the people did repent of their iniquities and idolatries the Lord did spare them, and they began to prosper again in the land. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/ether/7?lang=eng&id=p26#p26 Here is another view on how to attain prosperity from the children of Jared and his brother as filtered through Moroni.  Are we grateful that the Lord is willing to spare you , when you and I really deserve hellfire and damnation? We best be repenting from our cherished iniquities (sexual/"gender" deviance) and idolatries (water skiing and that demon bowling)!