Addictions and problems...

Text from here (Bad language therein, but a relevant message) ßYou have been warned!

 

This hurts on a few levels for me. As I read this and pondered it afterwards, I was struck by how many people search for ‘something’ to give their life meaning; it can be God, possessions, power, fame, anything.

   I found it sad that these people have, for whatever reason, given up on their belief in God, I find it equally distressing that they will, most likely, never want to try to find Him again because of their unanswered questions and bad experiences.

   And yet they feel like ‘something’ is missing. But it can’t  be God, or spirituality, or faith, because they have rationalized Him away. He can’t exist because they say so, and thus they won’t search for Him.

   I know from personal experience that addictions can’t be permanently overcome by willpower alone. Christ and His Atonement is the only way to find a way to become whole again. I feel bad for these people because they have cast aside the only real opportunity to change their situation that they have. I feel bad because the truth may come to them some day (or it already has) and they will reject it because they have told themselves that such faith is not rational, it can’t be proven, and thus is false, dangerous and not worth their time. Therefore they will remain mired in their problems, hoping for ‘something’ to come along and help them change.

   How powerful and destructive the mind can be, and how easily ensnared by cunning ‘logic’ it is!

   There is no problem with going on faith, on asking questions, on finding out the truth about things. However, to use the finite, imperfect mind to try and figure out Deity is ultimately a futile exercise. Worse, to become frustrated and disillusioned because we don’t have or can’t comprehend all of the answers leaves us, finally, to ourselves, to wallow in the slavery that Satan enjoins upon us because of the darkness of our supposedly ‘enlightened’ mind.

   I fail to understand why ‘faith’ is so derided by those who don’t believe in God. Even atheists and infidels work on faith: we have faith that if we work, then we will be paid, that the sun will rise tomorrow upon a new day, that those whom we love will love us in return and not hurt us. Why, then, is it so difficult to accept that there is a Supreme Being who directs the universe?

   To me it seems more simple to accept Authority and to find out whether or not what I have been taught is correct through prayer and study than it is to go it by myself. I see no weakness in that dependence.

   And finally: I am a sinner just as in need of the Atonement as anyone else. I am not superior, nor am I very far along in my purification and perfection process. In fact, I would classify myself to be among the few who are just barely past the starting line on the way to the Father. I just feel bad that there are those who have taken God out of their lives and yet are still searching for ‘something’.