Glen Beck

I was extremely sick last week and while I was, I spent a lot of time on the computer just surfing around wasting time. I visited a lot of blog-sites which is fastly becoming a favorite past-time of mine. I visited a blog that made a reference to Glen Beck and his testimoy. I was confused and followed the link to another blog that discussed Glen Beck being a mormon and how he'd been interviewed by CBS and now his testimony was all over the internet. I followed the link, very interested. I really like Glen Beck and have listened to him for several years in the afternoon on the radio on my way home from work. I never got the feeling from him that he was affiliated with any religious entity, not to mention the LDS religion. Needless to say I was quite stunned when I found out he was mormon. The link dropped me onto the the www.YouTube.com website where the interview could be viewed. It was about 8 minutes long and I watched it with surprise. Yes, he was discussing his conversion, his testimony, his family, his feelings and lots of stuff along that vein. He cried. I was stunned at some of the things he was saying about his faith on national television. He was very brave. Through it all, I felt very near to tears. I felt the spirit so strong while I watched it and was quite moved! While I watched it, I thought, "what a wonderful testament to the gospel," and wondered how anyone who watched it could still be a protagonist to the LDS church. I was so interested to find out how it was received that I decided to read the comments section after. I fully expected to see people responding to the spirit they felt, even if they didn't know that's what it was. But I was again, STUNNED to read HATEFUL, heated, antagonistic, rude, and argumentative comments. Of the 10 or so comments I read, it seemed I only read one favorable blurb. Everyone else was seriously so HATEFUL I wondered if they viewed the same clip I did!

I felt sad for those people. They are so full of the influence of satan that they can't see around those blinders. The spirit they undoubtedly felt while watching the clip was so violently misinterpreted by the advesary that they had to vehementenly object in such a hateful manner so not to be influenced by anything good. I'm not great with words here because I'm just speaking the thoughts that spill from my brain and I don't care if they're articulate or not. But I just think that the advesary has such a clutch on so many people and I cry with shame at the way the world treats our Savior.

You people who are hateful and want only to tear down the mormon religion, you need to understand something! We feel good inside! We are trying only to better our lives! We want to be closer to God whether you believe in him or not - we do! We're not asking that you change! We just want you to understand what your Savior did for you!

One night in Gethsemane (a garden outside of Jerusalem) Christ spent all night on his knees to God. Satan was there with him and tempted him with EVERY SINGLE SIN THAT MAN HAD EVER, AND HAS EVER COMMITTED. That means he was tempted by sex, pornography, alcohol, gold, riches, fame, selfishness and every other single thing that any of you or me has been tempted by. Satan was there causing him to be tormented by these sins but Christ WITHSTOOD them all! How did he do that? I can barely stop from drinking a cup of coffee and yet he stood up to ALL sins! And then, if that weren't enough, to fulfill the natural laws of balance, he allowed himself to be crucified because if we were all able to be forgiven of our sins, someone had to die that HAD NEVER SINNED BEFORE!

And you repay him for these acts of pure selflessness by cursing and saying hateful things about us when all we want to do is be better people. I don't hate you. I feel sad that you can't see what he did for you. You're depriving yourself of a joy that I can't even express to you!

Glen Beck is amazing and quite brave for saying all of those things on national television. I'd like to think I would be so bold. He had so much to lose! His ratings are his livlihood and he didn't care if he lost it! What does that tell you? Are we stupid people? Do you think we would sacrifice all of the wonderful things this world has to offer unless there was something better? HELLO - I think wine is yummy! I think coffee is the drink of angels! But God has more important things for me to be doing and so I listen BECAUSE IT'S WORTH IT!

I'm just saying that somewhere in your heart, your good angel is talking to you. You owe it to yourself to listen just for a minute to find out if there's more to Christ (and maybe even the mormon religion) than just being a TOOL, whatever that means.