God' commandments increasingly restrict with purpose.
God's commandments teach the skill of bridling. Bridling circumscribes power, giving it bounds, containing it. Of what use is unbridled power? To destroy.
I know this earthly experience seems to be ruled by destruction. But does destruction reign in the universe? The universe is ordered and destruction reigns only behind this earth's veil, for a brief period of time, with a very critical purpose? 1
Do we want destruction reigning? Let us thank God for enslaving destructive souls!
In the eternal, spiritual world, we can bridle, or be bridled. The Choice is ours. 2
The power of righteousness is to build.
The power of sin is to destroy.
Life, in the scriptural sense, refers to building.
Death, in the scriptural sense, refers to destruction.
At the end of earth's story, the unrepentant will become slaves
the way a nuclear reaction is harnessed by metal and concrete
coverings, and the hands which act upon them. 3
* if anyone discovers a use other than destruction for unbridled power, please let me know.
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1 John 16:21,22 (more about likening this earthly experience unto a woman in labor here); and Isaiah 54:7
2 "Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil." - 2 Nephi 2:27
3 "There is a God, and He hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are, both things to act and things to be acted upon." 2 Nepi 2:14
