Wickedness during Noah's Day VS modern days

Who was more wicked--people during Noah's time, or people during modern days?

What was it in Noah's day that caused such an outpouring of evil to cover the earth? Note it and note it well: it was their marriage discipline, their disregard of proper family relations, their gluttony and their drunkenness--all of which led to wars and carnality and corruption.

When Noah cried repentance to the people, they said: "Behold, we are the sons of God"--they claimed for themselves the blessings of true religion, thought they lived after the manner of the world--"have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of men?" Men were marrying out of the Church because they preferred a lewd and lascivious way of life rather than the one decreed in proper matrimony. "And are we not eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage?" Theirs was a life of gluttony and drunkenness. "And our wives bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are like unto men of old, men of great renown" (see Moses 8:21).

Is it any different today? Never in the entire history of the world has there ever been such an assault on the family unit as there is now. In some nations women work and the state rears their children. Women are handed rifles and taught the ways of war, and they are employed alongside men in drudgery and labor that destroys feminine sensitivities. Homosexuality is becoming too common, and none of it should be accepted. Millions of couples live together in sin. Death-dealing abortions have legal approval. Courses given in public schools encourage and approve immoral practices. Prostitution is legal in some jurisdictions, or not controlled in others.

All this and all else prevailing in our social structure make us wonder how much worse things must become before the burning fires of destruction shall cover the earth.

Truly, "by the word of God," the earth in Noah's day was "overflowed with water," and its inhabitan6ts "perished". And so, the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men" (2 Peter 3:5-7).

So says the holy word, and so shall it be.

God's Reason for Natural Disasters

The Earth Itself Cries: Why So Many Natural Disasters?

Due to recent events over the past couple of years, does it seem like there are more natural disasters occurring? Does God not love his children that he seemingly unnecessarily causes them harm?

This earth was created for us, to be our abiding place during a mortal probation. It was made in such a way as to best serve our needs. The Lord had power to arrange the earth, the elements, and all created things in the way that would best serve man, his crowning creation. Why did he make provision for natural disasters? What purpose is served by earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, storms, tempests, heat waves that burn the crops of men, and cold waves that freeze the fruits of the earth? These have all been woven into the continuing existence of our earth, an earth designed to serve us. Why?

It seems clear that we are here in mortality to gain experiences that could not be gained in any other way. We need to combat and overcome the forces of nature. We must face up to the sorrows and vicissitudes of mortality if we are to appreciate the eternal joys of immortality. And in addition, the disasters of earth--controlled as they are in the infinite wisdom of the Lord who knoweth all things--are used by him to temper and train us. He uses natural disasters to bring to us the conscious realization that we are dependent up a Supreme Being for all things. Does that sound familiar with the earthquake in Haiti, or Hurricane Katrina?

He uses natural disasters as a means of judgment to punish us for evil deeds done in the flesh. He also uses them to humble us so that perchance we will repent and live as he would have us live.

"Except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not remember Him." ~Helaman 12:3

And all of this has particular application in this day of wickedness when the world is being prepared to receive its rightful King.

~Millennial Messiah, Bruce R. McConkie

The Best of YOU

It took a little train engine to say "I think I can! I think I can!" What a great lesson to apply that in our lives saying, "I know I can! I know I can!"

--R

Things We Say to God

"Is it not an oath when we speak to God?"

--A Man for All Seasons featuring Thomas More

Knowing When to Help

The spirit can tell us when we need to pitch in and help, as well as when we help more by not helping.

--"Righteous influence" by Terry