Jesus' Kingdom

     "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things" (Articles of Faith 13).

    In this last week, I was reading through a dauntingly sizeable book called Articles of Faith, by Dr. James E. Talmage, a super amazing church leader who apparently really liked using big words.  The last section of the last section of that chapter hit me pretty hard-- not a bad hit me hard, though.  There, it talked about how the world would be organized according the system of God.  I'm someone who LOVES "what if" situations, but once they're tied with feasible evidence, do they still count as "what if" situations?

     Anywho, the part of the book talked about how the world will basically be a Thomas Moore-type world; no chaos and only the righteous and virtuous succeeding.  It sounds good on paper, but there's more to it than that.

     With life revolving around God, social stratification may as well be eliminated; however, in the words of that same Dr. Talmage, "the varying grades of occupation will still exist; there will be... some who can serve the cause of God best with the pen, others with the plow... every one laboring as far as practicable in the sphere of his choice" (Talmage 399).

     Think about it-- if Christ comes to reign again in these latter-days, the world, will be like this-- he knows the perfect form of government.  Only the righteous will prevail.  Because of which, we aim to look out for things that make us so-- not charlatan-esque, because that would be hypocritical.  We all have a role we can play on the grand stage of God.  He wants us to do what we can in all diligence and all grace.  We are who we are and we can be what we will be.  Food for thought.