Me Thinks

A friend gave me a book.  She bought me the book, told me she had read it, that it was a National best-seller, and recommended it.  It was a kind gesture and I read the book.  There were many things written in the book that I vehemently disagreed with.  For example:

We think our morals and values are absolute, but actually they're just a bunch of thoughts and beliefs that we've adopted over time as being true.  They're a construct of our minds and a product of our cultures.

One of the biggest rules is that there should never be any hard and fast rules!  I just pay attention to whatever feels right at the time.  

We're all unique, so no one can really make blanket rules about what's right for us.

I believe this is the most powerful idea for each of us:  realizing that we're here to discover and honor our own individual path.

May I take a minute to tell you what I believe--and it is NOT the messages in the four quotes above.  I believe that there are absolute truths, bed-rock truths that we can count on and that have stood the test of time.  Man did not create truth.  Truth existed before we came to earth.  There are laws on earth and there are laws in heaven and the universe is run by law.  There is consequence to the breaking of laws.  There is an eternal plan and God is at the helm. Though man may try to rewrite the laws, or pretend that they do not exist, God's laws DO exist and we are subject to them.  Men and women would rather take the easy path, the path of "doing what feels right at the time" or what feels good to them, but the path to becoming a God-like person, the path that leads to eternal happiness and joy, is a straight and narrow path and it includes obedience to God's laws. The "most powerful idea" for me is to know is that there is a God in Heaven, that Jesus Christ atoned for my sins, that there is a great plan of happiness called the plan of salvation, that I lived before I came to earth, that this earth life is a period of testing for me, to see if I can remain pure, strong, and obedient amidst temptation and adversity, and that I will live again after I die.  It is not a burden for me to know these things and to abide by the laws of God.  It is a blessing and it allows me to be free of the consequences of sin.