"THINK BEFORE YOU ACT"

Teaching Delivered Through

Frances Marie Klug

March 23, 1988

“If someone hands you a key, it suggests something that could be good, or it could even be temptation to partake in something wrong.

It is basically easy to suggest or imply a moral act, a moral reaction, a moral suggestion. It is also possible that these things can cause temptation to an act of immorality.

We look at daily living in such an unrestricted avenue, in taking what occurs as merely normal, but if we based all we think, do and accept on God’s Ten Commandments, we would look for the possibility when a decision is necessary, that our decision could be a moral turn or an immoral turn at someone else’s suggestion or obvious words, and/or acts of temptation.

It is a known fact, no matter what there is to sell, many, many people will buy it, good or bad, ridiculous or worthwhile, important or unimportant, whether it is something they want or do not want, need or do not need.

All advertising is not done through paid advertisements. Much acceptance of items, ideas are influenced by wanting what someone else has, imitating what someone else does, or just not wanting to be left out on what appears to be new, or is appealing to partake in.

Pornography grew in wild varied dimensions, from subtle suggestiveness to its blown-up proportions, not because everybody saw it, but the mere suggestion of its availability caused inquisitiveness, curiosity, which were great developers of pornography.

Because people are so vulnerable to buying what they see or hear about, it has placed many people in bondage emotionally, physically, monetarily, morally, spiritually. This bondage is not one in which someone weighs all the moral decisions. Decisions appear and are made easy because of the availability of so much in so many areas.

With all the distractions caused by changes in the merchandising fields, which covers everything such as items of clothing, food, building materials, literature, all types of entertainment fields, and so on, with so few people understanding the responsibility each individual has as custodian of his or her own Soul, little thought is given to the absolute, full identity of a moral or immoral suggestion.

An alarm is ringing. Everyone can hear it. People throughout the world, bar none, are aware of what is right, what is wrong.

Since the time God gave Moses His Commandments, people have been alerted to a conscious understanding of what is morally correct and what is morally wrong. There are really no excuses that can justify immorality, injustice, whether it be for religious reasons or for political reasons, or for the judgmental reasons in any type of courtroom or authoritative position throughout the world, because the Existence of God is evident by the very fact that the sun comes up in the morning, the moon is seen at night, we have food, we have clothing, and most of all, we have the privilege of the responsibility of procreation, plus the ability to recognize that only a Supreme Being could have created all this and hold all things in their proper place.

The next time a decision is to be made on whether to do the right thing or the wrong thing, say to yourself, ‘If God is doing all the right things by keeping all things in their proper place, then I must remember that as the custodian of my Soul I, too, must keep my Soul’s present and future in the right place, in a state of purity, prepared to meet God on a moment’s notice.’”

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