This is a GREAT scripture that we do not talk about enough in our LDS culture. Instead of being open about sin and struggles, we often sweep those things under the rug and it is not healthy. This gal has the correct view on SSAs and how to deal with them. Very good listen!:
https://youtu.be/W4WxPhWdU60?t=928
I think everyone who has someone in their family unit who struggles with LGBTQ issues, should listen to this. We should have James 5:16 listed in our homes.
A prominent exmo and all his lackies often condemns the talking openly about how people behave in regard to pornography or having same-sex relations with another as shaming. And some people do name call, use terrible tones, and seek with the intent to humiliate and shame as a form of coercing change. That is not what I am talking about.
ReplyDeleteSo if someone saw an incident of evil entities trying to enter a body while a person was viewing pornography and and acting out on it, the ExMo shamed that witness by claiming that person is shaming people who act this way just by describing behavior and a situation that was witnessed.
I can only imagine the words this ExMo and his followers would use to describe the woman in the clip above and would shame her in having the audacity to share her experience and say she is assuming her experience fits all people.
I have noticed patterns with people I love also. It doesn’t mean everyone fits the pattern. But these patterns are something to observe. I think it is important to love people because they are of great worth and they are a child of God ( or because we share this planet with them, if they do not believe in their Creator), but we do not have to affirm behavior. Love is not affirmation. Just as I learned love is not trust many years ago. These things are different.
I am grateful for the godlike way this leader or clergy responded to this woman. I am grateful for her healing and her humbleness. I am grateful she shared this. Not everyone may have the same journey, so we love and are patient. We do not have to affirm. We do not have to bully or ostracize either. We do not have to allow predatory behavior to sweep through either. There is a fine balance in navigating the laws of nature, God’s laws (which include laws of nature as God is the ultimate engineer of the universe) and temptations.
Remember, if there is no God, there is no sin. If there is no sin there is no cause, reason, or pathway to evolve or progress, so there is no growth but stagnation or to be blocked in one’s progress (like a damn blocks water—damnation). So that is Satan’s first deception. His second deception, is that there is no Satan, and no evil spirits that followed him, and if you believe in evil spirits and Satan, you will become a murderer like CD and LV. Huge conclusion jump from one sandbox to another. Stan leads one to believe that if you believe in temptations, you believe that you have no agency and power to act on your own, which is a lie.
Now, you can lose your agency gradually over time because the consequences of your actions keep piling up, and giving you less and less options until you become stuck or have little or few options.
I hope anyone who ever feels stuck will reach out to their Creator and trust His ability to get them unstuck — to lift the latch of the box they got locked in and set them free. Because some boxes have latches that fall down on the outside and once inside, you cannot lift the lid from the inside. You depend on another to flip up the latches of that canvas box with the wooden lid and let you out. But before they can lift the lid and let you out, they have to find the box that you got stuck in. Praise be to my God. He did this for me literally and has done it for me spiritually. Trust Him.