strengthining families

Despite our best efforts, without divine help we cannot establish Zion in our lives, marriages, and families. Only the Lord can establish Zion. The early Saints did all that they could do, but in the end the ideal of Zion was created because the Lord came to help them complete their journey. Were they Zion people before his appearance? Of course, but they had not yet achieved the ideal. That step requires the Lord’s intervention. Can we similarly quantify as Zion people without having achieved the ideal? Most assuredly. As we journey toward Zion and earnestly strive to assimilate Zion-like attributes in our lives, we are Zion. We simply must keep our eye single to the ideal of Zion and move forward with the Lord’s grace compensating for those attributes that we have not yet acquired. Thus, we will typically be describing the ideal that should be our goal.