"And in the commencement of the sixty and seventh year the people began to grow exceedingly wicked again.
For behold, the Lord had blessed them so long with the riches of the world that they had not been stirred up to anger, to wars, nor to bloodshed; therefore they began to set their hearts upon their riches; yea, they began to seek to get gain that they might be lifted up one above another; therefore they began to commit secret murders, and to rob and to plunder, that they might get gain."
Helaman 6:16-17
It's sort of sad that as a species, we are always stirring things up. If we aren't angry enough to start a war, then we move on to secret murders? Yikes. Perhaps we need to be a little bit more imaginitive about how we spend our time... get better hobbies, try to tamp down the evil a little. I'm not saying it is easy. We learn in Mosiah 3:19 that "the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint...."
Today, let's listen to the Spirit, and put away our tendencies towards evil. Let's work harder on finding a better way, and better things to do with our time.
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