Website owner: James Miller
We live in a world of spiritual confusion. People can't find the right way. Many seek it but can't find it. Why? Because they are so surrounded by false ideas, false values, false leaders that they don't know who to ask, who to trust, who they can believe. There are so many signposts that point in so many directions, that point down so many roads and paths, roads and paths that always lead to nothing. Life has so many attractions and allurements that turn out to be mirages and illusions. Satan has so much power, has so clouded and confused everything, placed so much clutter before your eyes that you don't know which way to go. Anyone you turn to for help or advice is as mixed up as you and gives you bad advice. Spiritual truth is like a diamond hidden somewhere in mountains of worthless dirt, gravel and debris. If you don't know where to look for it how do you find it? Without help from the one man in ten million who really does know its true location how do you find it? It is a frustrating search. If you really want to find it for yourself you can find it slowly through years of search, quiet reflection, thought and reading the right books. But if you want to find it quickly, I think I can tell one where it is to be found. It is found in belief in God and commitment to his ways; it is found in the right set of values, attitudes and priorities in life; it is found in a life of self-imposed discipline, quiet reflection, love of virtue, simple living, honesty, integrity, morality and goodness; it is found in shunning evil and foolishness. Aug 1986
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