Video 57 --- 🏗️ So What Do We Do Now? This is just the opposite of an April Fool's Joke
🏗️ So What Do We Do Now?
🪶 A simple Zion question — asked quietly, and answered plainly in scripture.
🌅 Seeing Clearly Creates Responsibility
Once we wake up, something changes.
We can’t unknow what we’ve seen.
We can’t pretend the questions don’t matter.
And we can’t live the same way we did before.
But awakening alone doesn’t tell us how to live.
So a deeper question begins to rise — not in anger, but in sincerity:
What does Christ want us to do now?
📖 Scripture Is Surprisingly Clear
When I turn to scripture — especially the Book of Mormon — I’m struck by how practical it is.
It doesn’t say:
wait for perfect conditions
build the right institution first
solve every problem before acting
Instead, it keeps returning to a way of life:
➡️ Repent daily
➡️ Be baptized into Christ
➡️ Receive and follow the Spirit
➡️ Care for the poor and the weak
➡️ Live consecrated lives
➡️ Stop seeking power over one another
➡️ Become one
Zion, in scripture, is not announced.
It emerges.
🕊️ Zion Is a People Before It Is a Place
This is where many of us get turned around.
We think Zion begins when:
the right people gather
the right authority is declared
the right structure is restored
But scripture shows the opposite.
Zion begins when people:
repent honestly
stop competing
stop excusing pride
stop justifying inequality
live with open hands and soft hearts
Only then does a place appear.
Without that, every attempt at Zion collapses into hierarchy, control, or disappointment.
🌿 What the Nemenhah Echoes
The Nemenhah Records say this plainly — sometimes more plainly than we’re comfortable with.
Zion is sustained by:
consecration
humility
shared responsibility
care for children, mothers, and the vulnerable
councils instead of rulers
love as the governing law
And when those things are lost, even a people who once walked in light can fall away.
Not because God failed —
but because the way of living changed.
That’s a warning… and an invitation.
💔 The Daughter’s Lament Still Speaks
The Lamentation of the Daughter adds a voice we often overlook.
She doesn’t accuse.
She mourns.
She weeps because:
power replaced compassion
ritual replaced relationship
control replaced trust
the vulnerable were forgotten
Her lament isn’t about doctrine.
It’s about how people treated one another.
And that tells us something important:
Zion fails first in the heart —
long before it fails in form.
👣 So What Does Obedience Look Like Now?
For most of us, obedience won’t look dramatic.
It will look like:
making peace where we once defended ourselves
simplifying our lives
loosening our grip on excess
listening more than speaking
repenting without performing
loving people we don’t agree with
refusing to dominate or be dominated
These don’t feel like “building Zion.”
But they are the only things that ever have.
🌱 Start Where You Are
You don’t need a calling.
You don’t need permission.
You don’t need a movement.
You need:
a willing heart
an honest repentance
a listening ear
a soft hand
Christ builds Zion through people who walk with Him — not people who announce Him.
🤍 A Quiet Ending
If you’re awake and asking what to do next:
Start living the way Jesus taught.
Start treating people the way Zion requires.
Start repenting in ways that actually change your life.
Everything else will come in its time.
Zion is not rushed.
It is grown.
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