Video 54 --- 🌅 Awakening Is Not the Destination
🌅 Awakening Is Not the Destination
🪶 A gentle word for those who are waking up — and wondering where to go next.
👀 Something Is Happening
More people are waking up right now than I’ve ever seen before.
They’re re-reading scripture.
Questioning assumptions.
Noticing that some things recorded in history — and even in scripture — were never actually approved of by God.
That awakening matters.
It’s often painful.
And for many, it’s unavoidable.
But there’s something I want to say gently, especially to those who are just opening their eyes:
Awakening is not the destination.
📖 What Scripture Actually Asks
Scripture doesn’t wake us up so we can stand still and stare at the wreckage behind us.
It wakes us up so we can move forward.
When I read the Book of Mormon, I’m struck by how little time it spends rehearsing institutional failure — and how much time it spends asking a different question:
Now that you see more clearly… what will you do?
And the answer, again and again, is remarkably simple:
➡️ Come unto Christ
➡️ Repent
➡️ Be baptized
➡️ Receive the Holy Ghost
➡️ Learn to hear His voice
➡️ Live consecrated lives
➡️ Care for one another
➡️ Walk humbly
➡️ Prepare to meet Him
Not complicated.
Not dramatic.
Just real.
⚠️ The Quiet Danger of Awakening
There’s a danger I’ve watched many sincere people fall into.
They wake up — and then they get stuck.
🌀 Stuck analyzing history
🌀 Stuck dissecting institutions
🌀 Stuck debating authority, branches, timelines, and failures
And before they realize it, the very awakening that was meant to lead them to Christ becomes a new form of captivity.
Awareness without movement hardens into frustration.
Knowledge without repentance breeds pride.
Truth without love becomes sterile.
Scripture never describes the higher law as better interpretation.
It describes it as a changed heart.
🏗️ Zion Was Never Built This Way
Zion was never built by winning arguments.
It was never built by perfect systems.
It was never built by people who had everything figured out.
Zion is built quietly.
🕊️ One person at a time
🕊️ As people choose the Savior
🕊️ As they live what He actually taught
🕊️ As the Spirit writes the law on their hearts
Every attempt to build Zion without repentance has failed.
Every attempt to build it through power or certainty has collapsed.
But when people genuinely walk with Christ — even imperfectly — something real begins to grow.
🚶♂️ So Yes — Wake Up
Yes, wake up.
Question what needs to be questioned.
Let false traditions fall away.
Be honest about history.
Be willing to see clearly.
But then… move.
❌ Not backward into blame
❌ Not sideways into endless debate
❌ Not upward into spiritual pride
➡️ Move forward.
Into Christ.
Into transformation.
Into repentance that feels like relief, not punishment.
Into a living relationship where He teaches you how to walk.
Because the goal was never awakening.
The goal was always becoming His.
🌱 A Quiet Invitation
If you’re awake and unsure where to go next, I don’t have a map for you.
But I know Someone who does.
Ask Christ what repentance looks like for you.
Ask Him how to hear His voice.
Ask Him who you’re meant to love and serve right now.
He knows how to gather His people.
He knows how to honor real covenants.
He knows how to build Zion — starting in human hearts.
You don’t need to solve everything today.
Just don’t stop walking.
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