Friday, September 13, 2013

The idea isn't totally clear to me yet, but I am going ahead with it in the hopes that as I write it will become more precise for me.  I have been considering the way that folks come up with new ways to define 'the way' and in so doing they often stray in their effort to reinvent the truth.  There is some merit to making 'it' ours, but never at the cost of redefining it.  The scriptures tell us the 'I am the way, the truth, and the life'.  That doesn't leave any room for us to reinvent or modify the truths that He has given us.  It seems to  me that every preacher or life teacher has a slogan meant to entice us and identify what he is advocating.  Most are wise enough to try to at least refer to established truths, but some invent a new twist or slant that is a clue that what they want is to insert their own 'truth' in place of 'the truth'.  One I have come across recently is 'Thinking is allowed'.  The implication is that 'Mormonism' does not allow thinking.  In truth, just because 'the way' has been established does not diminish the requirement to think our way to it as we come to embrace it.  I, for one, know that our Father in Heaven didn't hastily come up with it, thus leaving room for us to improve 'it'.  It was well 'thought out' from the beginning.  All that is left is for us to come to understand it, embrace it and allow it to take us home.  It is the only 'way'.  We don't need to reinvent it, just learn it, understand it and embrace it.  

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