It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest, most uninteresting person, you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw their future now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. Remembering always that there are no ordinary people. Moving forward is our expectation, our destiny. When born to earth we can move our arms and kick our feet but we cannot walk, run, etc. As we mature physically and as soon as we are able, those advances will all come. All through human life we seem to naturally look forward to ‘what is next’, where do I go from here. From preschool, to first grade, and so-on. From entry level work to promotions or moving on to another employer or job.
Martin Luther King used the term, ‘When’. He always assumed changes would come, that better things, ‘improvements’, are just around the corner, etc. He saw a time, ‘when’ all men would be standing together side by side, black, white, red and yellow. When the (Blackman) would have access to education and equal opportunity for employment. ‘When’, was part of those future statement in Martin Luther King’s life and words. In my life time, his ‘When’ is getting close to reality, I have seen things change from ‘When to Now’ that’s just the way things are in life. What a wonderful way for life to be and for us to look at life. Today, we celebrated Martin Luther King Day, and one speaker spoke of him as a prophet and for the black people and the black movement, he was a great leader and a great prophet. A prophet is not just a robed, bearded Israelite, wandering in the desert near Sinai, it is anyone who furthers the Lord’s work among the children of men.
Some people have refused to work towards Martin Luther Kings, “When”. They have refused to put their flesh in the fight. They are they who sit back and hope others will do everything to turn our world back into a “Moral planet”, a planet where all men can be treated as equals. Martin Luther King spoke out, he marched and he put his life on the line. He was a martyr, and a prophet for his time, for his people and for our society. Was he a perfect man? No! But was his work prophetic? Yes!
I believe that Joseph Smith was, and is, a prophet and will have that title throughout eternity. He was able to restore the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth after centuries of false teachings and doctrine. The apostasy began shortly after Christ’s death. The apostles were all killed or imprisoned. False teachings were adopted into Christ’s church and oppressive religious leaders followed. Joseph’s work is prophetic, in that it is slowly changing people and will eventually change the world.
Is there such a thing as a perfect man? There are good men and good women and they do some things, perfectly, but they are human. Humans, by their very nature, are subject to the many temptations of life, to disease, to the weaknesses of the flesh, to deterioration. There was only one, one perfect one, that I am aware of and that was Jesus Christ. He was perfect; the only one who could resist temptation and worldly attractions. Most importantly, the only one who was willing to give his life to satisfy universal justice. He was the one chosen to plead with the ‘universe of intelligences’ to let us, the imperfect ones, whether white, black, brown or red, return back to our Father, the Father and God of the whole universe. As His children we should be looking for Christ-like attributes in each other, because there are no ordinary people. A good and Perfect God, did not sire ordinary children.