Who, Me? - Moses 6:31-39

The Lord has called Enoch to cry repentance to the people of the earth and Enoch takes it about as well as anyone else does, with a “wait, what?” Enoch “bowed himself to the earth… saying, Why is it that I have found favor in thy sight, and am but a lad, and all the people hate me; for I am slow of speech; wherefore am I thy servant?” He says “I’m too young and I don’t speak well, why are you choosing me?” But we know that whom the Lord calls, he qualifies, so he tells Enoch to do what he’s commanded and that he’ll be protected and given the words to say because ultimate “all flesh is in my hands.” God promises Enoch the Holy Ghost and promises him that He will fulfill all the promises Enoch makes “wherefore all thy words will I justify; and the mountains shall flee before you, and the rivers shall turn from their course.” God tells Enoch to go “anoint thine eyes with clay, and wash them, and thou shalt see.” This is reminiscent of when Jesus rubs clay into the eyes of the blind man and heals him. But what’s interesting in this part is that after Enoch puts clay on his eyes and then washes it off “he beheld the spirits of God had created; and he beheld also things which were not visible to the natural eye; and from thenceforth came the saying abroad in the land: A seer hath the Lord raised up unto his people.” The IM quotes Elder John A. Widtsoe as teaching, “A seer is one who sees with spiritual eyes. He perceives the meaning of that which seems obscure to others; therefore he is an interpreter and clarifier of eternal truth. He foresees the future from the part and the present. This he does by the power of the Lord operating through him directly, or indirectly with the aid of divine instruments such as the Urim and Thummim.” I always just thought that the definition of a seer is someone who sees the future, but it’s much more than that. A seer only sees the future that God wants him to see, it’s not like he can put his hand on someone’s head and read their future like a fortune teller, it has to be something God wants him to se. And it’s not just about seeing the future, it’s seeing things with spiritual eyes, God’s purposes, the past and the present. Enoch went forth and preached repentance to the people and they reacted about how he thought that they would, “all men were offended because of him,” and call him “a strange thing” and “a wild man.” But just like God promises “no man laid hands on him; for fear came on all them that heard him; for he walked with God.” They might not have liked what he was saying, but they knew that those words came from God. I wonder what kind of cognitive dissonance someone has to have to know that the words someone speaks comes straight from God and feel the words with authority and still say “nah, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing.”