DWQA QuestionsCategory: Human PotentialJames E. Faust said: “Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God’s laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God’s will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.” What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 1 year ago
This, indeed, is insightful and contains within a quite lofty understanding of holiness, that aspect of divinity that knows what it is all about and, in a state of completeness, is its own reward, it need not be thrust on others, lorded over others to be self-aggrandizing or boastful. Being in a state of holiness is all that is implied by the definition or description of being divine or acting divinely. Some never get there because they start in a state of disconnection and never find a way forward to come close to being in divine alignment. This is what makes it so very special, because it is an attainment not everyone enjoys nor can reach even in the course of a lifetime. When one is in divine alignment, there is an inner strengthening that brings with it an inner satisfaction and contentment that one has nothing left to prove and, being in alignment, precludes any temptation to judge others, criticize, or offer corrections, and may hold the higher wisdom that when someone is acting inappropriately and expecting praise but is met with silence, because you have a higher knowing that they are acting inappropriately, and as they are out of alignment you simply withdraw praise because it would be a kind of lie, doing nothing is an act of strength, reserve, refined polish, and a rocklike strength and steadiness to not give in to faulty expectations of others. Nor go out of one's way to cause harm by possibly creating a conflict situation that will misdirect things and, in effect, become a nondivine response, when a silent reception can speak volumes and will be much more powerful, by showing you are unmoved by the antics of the other party because they are representing something that is of a lower level and are not fooling you; this puts the burden on the other person where it truly belongs. There are always risks when someone else does things to make you become their disciplinarian, their judge and jury, their critic, or their opponent by manipulating you to take up a challenge that will not be a productive interchange, in all likelihood, but draw you into a contentious interchange that will lower your vibration so that anything you offer will, in fact, be of lesser value and less effective, if well-meaning in attempting to instruct the other person, by pointing out their flaws. That can backfire when uninvited. This is summed up nicely by the apt description of "condemning something with faint praise," it can indeed be a loftier choice than criticism.