The Pride Cycle

Helaman Chapter 12 --

The Pride Cycle...explained.

In the Lord's goodness he blesses the righteous, but oh how quickly they forget!!!

Verse 2 -- "at the very time when he doth proser his people...the do harden their hearts."
Verse 3 -- "and thus we see that except the Lord doth chasten his people...they will not remember him."

Verse after verse lists the great power of God moving mountains, drying up oceans, lengthening days/nights -- when He commands it is done. Yet his own children do not heed his counsel. Thus we are less than the dust of the earth, because the dust doth obey. Yet we are encouraged to repent & be saved.

I especially liked verse 6:
"Behold, they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule & reign over them; nothwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide."

How insulting on our part? The Lord has sacrificed His son in order to save US & yet we still do not obey!!! Pride is a very powerful thing.

It is interesting to see the hearts of the children of men returning to the Father today. As we come down from experiencing HUGE prosperity into very difficult economic times, the humility has been apparent. Why can we not remember the Lord in our times of prosperity to the same degree we remember him in times of distress?

On another note, why can we not live with exact obedience? Do we think we know better? We must submit our will to the Father -- that is all we have to give.