Meridian Magazine - The Dangers of Gospel Hobbies - Meridian Magazine - LDS, Mormon and Latter-day Saint News and Views
Funny, I had just checked my email, scanning over a new message from the
"Green Smoothie Girl," hawking her latest cure-all and all new
"Meditations" (on a theme of fanatic green-foodie-ness) when I saw this
article from Larry Barkdull on Meridian.
Burkdull's comments really struck a
chord with me. As I ponder about people I know, and even myself, who
have quite gone off the "deep end" chasing rabbits in the high weeds of
Gospel doctrine topics- or just ideas in general.
Whether the topics relate to Feminists, who
demand the priesthood and know "for a fact" that they are second class
citizens in the Church; Social Gospel adherents, intent on liberalizing a
Conservative faith; Word of Wisdom fanatics who swear vegetarianism is
the key to everything that ails us; End of Timers who are certain if
they have enough land and enough "stuff," all will be well, come what
may; Family History mavens intent on tracing and doing temple work for
everyone they ever knew- back to Adam; or my own personal issue,
Political Monday- Morning Quarterbacking, i.e., spend more time worrying
about the latest news out of D.C. than the words of the holy scriptures.
It seems there is something out there to drive us all one way or
another. And I'm certain people in other faiths and Christian
denominations, and even those of no faith, have the same challenges
(like focusing on who gets to be called Christian, creationism vs.
evolution, old earth vs. young earth, who is "saved," and what
constitutes a Christian "Worldview," fitness, nutrition, the
environment, whales, the snail darter, fast driver, slow drivers, the color of the sky, etc!)
Maybe, just maybe, Christ is who we need to
focus on, not the rabbits in the bushes. We really do often spend more
time looking at the individual trees in the forest, than actually seeing
the totality of the beauty that makes the forest so spectacular. And
even then, we fail to focus on the Creator who brought it all into
existence. Maybe if we could do that, we wouldn't waste so much time wallowing about in the weeds of life...and doctrine.
By the way: HAVE A BLESSED EASTER!
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