🪶 Was Earth Meant to Be a Test? --- Medicine Wheel #1
🪶 Was Earth Meant to Be a Test?
🌄 What Moroni Learned After the War
(Medicine Wheel — Part 1)
I want to talk plainly.
No mystery.
No secret code.
No pressure.
Just something that’s been settling into my bones lately.
Most of us in the LDS world grew up hearing this scripture:
“We will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.”
— Abraham 3:25
And we were taught that meant:
This earth is a test.
Pass it.
Obey everything.
Hope you measure up.
I believed that for decades.
But what if that word “prove” doesn’t mean what we thought?
🌾 Prove — Like Bread
In older English, “prove” doesn’t just mean test.
It can mean:
To reveal.
To bring forth.
To refine.
To allow what’s inside to rise.
Like when you prove bread.
You don’t test the dough to see if it’s evil.
You let it rise so what’s already in it becomes visible.
What if earth isn’t a courtroom?
What if it’s a place where what we already are rises?
That changes everything.
🕊️ Before We Came Here
Think about this.
Before we came here, we were with Him.
We listened to Him.
All creation listened to Him.
Even the dust obeys.
Helaman says we are “less than the dust of the earth” because the dust obeys.
It listens.
The test isn’t obedience to a checklist.
The test is:
Will we listen again?
🌿 2 Nephi 32 Is the Key
Nephi didn’t say:
Follow the rulebook perfectly.
He said:
“If ye will enter in by the way, and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do.”
That’s different.
That’s not:
Obey first, understand later.
That’s:
Draw near.
Receive Him.
Then He tells you.
That’s relationship.
Not compliance.
🌄 After the Collapse
Now let’s shift to Moroni.
Moroni watched his civilization collapse.
He buried his father.
He buried his people.
He wandered alone.
We don’t talk about this much, but that kind of trauma leaves something in a man.
And according to the Nemenhah record — which continues the northern migrations begun in Alma 63 when Hagoth sailed into the lands northward and to the isles of the sea — Moroni eventually lived among a remnant people.
The Nemenhah.
These were not Nephites.
They were people who had broken away generations earlier.
They preserved different records.
Different traditions.
And Moroni did not come to them as a general.
He came as a wounded man.
🔄 What Emerged
What emerged among the Nemenhah was not a new church.
It was a pattern.
A framework.
A way of remembering.
We now call it the Medicine Wheel.
Not medicine like herbs.
Medicine like healing.
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🪶 A Simple Picture (Before We Go Further)
Before we go any deeper, let me slow this down for a second.
Most people hear “Medicine Wheel” and think:
something cultural… something symbolic… maybe even something foreign.
That’s not what this is.
At its core, the Medicine Wheel is simply a way of walking with God again.
According to the Nemenhah record, Moroni came out of war carrying everything a man carries after watching his world fall apart.
Loss.
Grief.
Confusion.
Silence.
And instead of building another system… another hierarchy… another structure—
he was led to a pattern.
A way to return.
Not outward.
👉 Inward.
A way to:
- quiet the noise
- remember who he was
- learn to hear the Lord again
The Wheel is that pattern.
It’s not a church.
It’s not a replacement for Christ.
It’s a way of walking—step by step—back into alignment with Him.
You don’t climb it.
You don’t earn your way through it.
You move through it…
and it slowly brings you back to the center.
And the center is where He speaks.
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🪶 What Is the Medicine Wheel?
It is not replacing Christ.
It is not replacing scripture.
It is not competing with the Restoration.
It is a way of remembering:
Who we are
What we carry
How we discern
How we return inward
How we listen
It begins in the center.
Then moves outward.
Then comes back in again.
Every time you circle it, your understanding deepens.
🌿 The Center of the Wheel
The center teaches three simple things:
You are already here because you were worthy to be here.
You carry divine endowment from the Creators.
You have noble agency safeguarded by the Peacemaker.
Notice:
No shame.
No ladder.
No checklist.
Just remembering.
🔥 So Is Earth a Test?
Here’s where this gets tender.
If Abraham 3:25 is read as:
God needs to see if you’re good enough…
Then fear enters the system.
But if it’s read as:
Earth reveals what you will choose…
Then responsibility enters the system.
And here’s the deeper layer:
What if the proving isn’t for God?
What if it’s for us?
What if this life reveals whether we will listen to Him again?
Not obey blindly.
Listen.
🕊️ The Real Completion
We were complete before.
We listened before.
Everything obeyed before.
What broke wasn’t worthiness.
What broke was listening.
So maybe completion isn’t passing a test.
Maybe completion is:
Learning to hear Him again.
And then following because we trust Him.
Not because we’re afraid.
🌊 The Nemenhah Continuation
The Nemenhah records preserve additional history:
The migrations northward
The isles of the sea
Expanded accounts of Samuel the Lamanite
Records of the translated Nephites
Clarifications about Corianton and Isabel
Teachings on the Peacemaker and the Way
They do not erase the Book of Mormon.
They expand context.
And they show something important:
After collapse, healing was needed.
Not more hierarchy.
Not more war.
Healing.
🌄 The Medicine Wheel Is Healing
The Wheel doesn’t say:
Prove yourself worthy.
It says:
Remember you were already worthy to come.
Then walk.
Listen.
Discern.
Return inward.
Circle again.
Grow.
🌾 Why This Matters
Many of us were raised trying to pass.
Trying to measure up.
Trying to not fail.
But what if the real movement is surrender?
What if the real growth comes when we stop performing and start listening?
This is Part 1.
Next we’ll talk about:
The Mother’s Lodge (the center)
Discernment vs indoctrination
Why obedience before understanding creates fear
And how the Wheel differs from institutional religion without attacking it
We’ll go slow.
No rush.
Just walking.
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📜 WHAT “PROVE” LOOKS LIKE — IN SCRIPTURE
For those who want to look more closely, the idea of “proving” is used throughout scripture — and it often looks different than we were taught.
🌾 “Prove” as Revealing, Not Condemning
- Pearl of Great Price — Abraham 3:25
- “We will prove them herewith…”
👉 Not necessarily to fail them — but to reveal what they choose
🕊️ God Looks on the Heart
- Bible — 1 Samuel 16:7
- “Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart”
👉 The revealing is inward, not performative
🌿 The Spirit Teaches What to Do
- Book of Mormon — 2 Nephi 32:5
- “The Holy Ghost… will show unto you all things what ye should do”
👉 Guidance comes through relationship, not checklist
🌱 Tested… or Refined?
- Bible — Zechariah 13:9
- “I will refine them as silver is refined”
👉 Like fire reveals what is already there
🌄 The Real Invitation
- Book of Mormon — Moroni 10:5
- “By the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things”
👉 Knowing comes through connection, not pressure
🔁 A DIFFERENT WAY TO SEE IT
| “Test” (Common View) | “Prove” (Scriptural Pattern) |
|---|---|
| Pass or fail | Reveal what is inside |
| Performance-based | Relationship-based |
| Obey to qualify | Listen to be guided |
| Fear of failure | Opportunity to choose |
| External measurement | Internal transformation |
🌱 THE QUIET SHIFT
Maybe nothing about the scripture needs to change.
Only the lens.
👉 Not: “Am I good enough?”
👉 But: “Am I willing to listen?”
🕊️ FINAL THOUGHT
If this life is a “proving”…
it may not be about proving something to God.
It may be about discovering, for ourselves:
👉 Will I hear Him again…
👉 and will I trust what I hear?
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👉 https://thetrueremnantblog.blogspot.com
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