The advisory will do anything to tear families apart! There is nothing more threatening and wholesome to Satan then the family unit itself. For with a strong family surrounding any individual, that individual has the strength to withstand most trials. Any way he can tear the family apart, he will do so, and with pleasure.One of the biggest tools the Advisory uses and has against the family is the silent and powerful process of thought. Yes our thoughts is the very beginning of all actions, thoughts are the process in the middle that pushes our actions forward and thoughts are the ending decisions that close our minds around any idea that is formed and believed, which controls our actions.
By thoughts alone we can either save or destroy a family member and our relationship.
For the last few months it was my thoughts that the advisory attacked. It was my decision to dwell on the thoughts or to push them aside and it was my actions that solidified my thoughts. To much of my dismay and horror I chose to listen to, and act upon a lot of harmful thoughts aimed toward my family. I would like to acknowledge that gratefully I never let it get past the second stage of harmful thought process. Even in that phase though.. I unknowingly distanced my- self from family members, I harbored ill feelings, I even begin to believe what my thoughts were to the point of forming an ill opinion of these certain family members. Even if my thoughts were founded on any bases of truth, I have learned it is not my right to not love completely each and every family member to my fullest, just because I don't agree or like they way their lives are lived.
Wilford Woodruff explains this to the up most perfection, and as I read it yesterday a overwhelming since of peace came over me. His words are as follows,
"Fault finding. I want to say to the brethren and the to the sisters, let us cease finding fault one with another; let us not say that this man or this woman does wrong, this family does wrong, this person or the other sets a bad example; let us realize that we ourselves are held responsible for what we do.
It will do me no good if I apostatize because somebody's family follows the fashions of Babylon, or because some man or woman or some set of men and women do wrong. Let us cease this kind of work, and all of us look to ourselves. It will do me no good if I apostatize because I think someone else does not do right. We should lay this aside. There is too much of it in the Zion of God today, and has been a good while, finding fault with this, that, and the other, instead of looking at home.
Let us all look at home, and each one try to govern his own family and set his own house in order, and do that which is required of us, realizing that each one is held responsible before the Lord for his or her individual actions only." The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff.
When my husband handed me this passage to read, I knew where my faults were... I was being to preoccupied with everyone else and what their faults were. How they have hurt and offended me. How their actions pained and frustrated me. When in the end, all I need and should do is love them for all that they are, and just work on me and my small family. As this thought came to my mind, and I chose to act upon it, for the first time in months, I felt as if I could breath.
So lets not let the Advisory win... Lets not let him put these thoughts in our mind and than convince us we should act upon them. PUT ASIDE THE NEGATIVE AND EMBRACE CHRIST! In the words of Wilford Woodruff, "It will do me no good if I apostatize because I think someone else does not do right."
With love, Kamie Renee Mysliwiec
