"Today I hope to persuade you to follow the living prophets and to warn of a deception the adversary has devised to prevent you from following them. The scriptures refer to that deception as “murmuring.”
Doc & Cov 101:43–62
According to the Lord’s parable, murmuring consists of three steps, each leading to the next in a descending path to disobedience.
First, the servants began to question. They felt to exercise their own judgment upon the instruction given by their master. Verse 48
Second, they began to rationalize and excuse themselves from doing what they had been instructed to do. Verse 49
The third step inevitably follows: slothfulness in following the commandment of the Master. Verse 50
The simplest of instructions may reveal the tendency to murmur. I attended a meeting once when the presiding authority invited members of the congregation to come forward in the meeting room. A few stirred. Most did not.
I was recently in a Church meeting in West Africa when a priesthood leader invited the brethren to come forward and occupy the first three rows of the chapel. Every man immediately stood and moved his seat according to instruction.
The adversary whispers the deceptive invitation to murmur to thus destroy the power that comes from obedience."
Beware of Murmuring
By Elder H. Ross Workman
Doc & Cov 58:29
1 Nephi 2:12
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