Sustain our Leaders?
I have been reading, listening, observing the past few weeks all the discussion and debate about President Packer’s talk this past conference. I agree with him completely but because I look at his words as what can I learn and how can I improve. I love the focus on personal responsibility and the strength of Agency. What a comfort to know we are more powerful than Satan, and even more powerful than the Natural Man that is with in us, perhaps even genetic flaws caused by the fall of Adam and Eve to Mortality. The point is we can choose to sin or we can choose to resist temptation in all its forms.
As I have been pondering everything I have seen and read, I have come to a great realization. We are at a cross roads. Oh, I have known this for awhile, that is not what has come to my attention. What has become more aware is how well do we sustain our leaders. As I have seen people who are or have been at one time faithful members of the church, now attacking this man for the words he had the courage to speak as being hateful and hurtful, and calling him extreme, I was brought to think of other prophets. Prophets that were bold, direct, to the point, and did not hold back anything. Would we be treating them the same. Many of these prophets are held up and revered not just by the LDS members, but people of other faiths, including the Jews.
Would we be speaking against these men? Noah, Enoch, ELIJAH, Moses, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Adam, John the Baptist, the Saviour? Oh, yes there are times that love is spoken, but even the Saviour got direct and blunt with many people. For me, it has become a wake up call to watch how I treat and speak about our current leaders.



