Keeping up

I have no idea what to write in this blog. One thing that has been going through my mind lately are the prophecies of the latter days, when the wheat and the tares become ripened for the thrashing. There will come a time when all things will be made manifest but before that time there shall be miracles wrought, blessings poured out from heaven,  and like the tired and worn out salary worker fighting to prevent the coming of Monday, Satan, the father of lies, will try his best to keep us all from tasting of the goodness of God; he wants us to be miserable because misery loves company; it's like a bottle than never runs dry; you can sink deeper into self-pity and the sinking itself is what soothes the bitter and resentful soul. It's only when you stop sinking that the pain and heartache at what could have been returns. This is why Satan will continue to blind the hearts of the children of men and rage across the world. 

I think it is amazing to see people learned yet refuse to learn. We read all throughout the scriptures that God can only perform miracles when we believe in them. Why should He perform them when we do not believe in them? God does not change nor is He dead. However, when His children choose to follow Mammon they choose death and captivity and none can deliver. How great the laugh of the Adversary and his angels when the children of men heed not to their conscience and refuse to call upon their God who holds out His arms perpetually in mercy. How God must feel when like the dog biting the hand that feeds it, we turn our backs to Him. God does not turn away; it is we who turn away. I know this for a fact because I have turned my back on God, only to find that the emptiness without Him is as hollow and empty as the space between the sun and the earth. 

What is it that causes us to have a change of heart? What leads us back into the presence of God? Faith in God and in His Only Begotten Son, Jesus the Christ, and a witness from the Holy Ghost. Faith is not just belief. If it were then we would only need to say Belief in Christ brings about a change of heart. Not so. Faith is living and breathing; it is cultivated and nurtured; it can bloom and blossom or be choked and wither away. And having faith in Jesus Christ causes one to pick up his or her cross and follow Him; we suffer His cross the shame of the world. In other words, we are not believers of the word only but doers of the word. By the atonement, our faith in Jesus Christ and repentance increases our desire to do good and smothers the desire to do evil.