"Will ye also go away?"

While studying today, I came across a quote by Elder Neal A. Maxwell that I really liked. It is completely relevant when thinking of our world today.

"This is the time for us to choose! It is not just that God will insist that we choose for our own sake, but that those who depend upon us, or use us as a reference point, need and deserve to know which way we going . . . especially at a time when there is a sharper and sharper divergence in the way of the world and the straight and narrow way. The disciple must not only stand in 'holy places' but on holy issues and 'not be moved.' The events of our time and spiritual decay in the world have produced for us the equivalent situation faced by many of the disciples who followed Jesus. They followed him until he began to preach the 'hard sayings'- the doctrines that really demand not only belief, but performance; doctrines which would distinguish them from their contemporary society. The Lord wants us to put some distance - behaviorally - between ourselves and the world, not because we love mankind less, but precisely because we do love men. It is for the world's sake that we must sanctify ourselves. When Jesus' followers faced their moment of truth, John records, 'From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him,' Jesus turned to the remainder and queried them, "Will ye also go away?'"