And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ......2 Nephi 25:26

In the Old Testament I read how the Lord was angry with Israel because of their wickedness and He was going to burn them in the lowest hell and heap mischiefs upon them. Deut. 32:20-26 "And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:"


In the Book of Mormon I read a powerful verse that admonishes us to come unto Christ, offering up our whole souls as an offering unto the Lord, continuing in fasting and prayer and enduring to the end. If we do these things, we'll be able to partake of the Lord's power of redemption and we'll be saved. Omni 1: 26 "And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved."

In a verse with a thought booklet we read about how David's evil actions caused the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme. In fact, because of this the Lord was going to punish David by having his child die. How good are we at being examples of true followers of Jesus Christ? Do our lives show that we are true Christians or when people see how we act, do they form a bad opinion of what we're supposed to represent? I had to laugh at a story of a man who was driving like a maniac because he was late for church, cutting off cars and swearving around them. Then just before he got to church he realized how bad it would look to turn into the church parking lot and have the people in the cars who had witnessed his terrible driving think poorly of his church when they saw him pulling in. He then drove several blocks before turning back to the church just so no one who saw his bad driving would know he belonged to that church. We need to make sure that our actions are good examples of how a true disciple of Christ should behave. Then, no matter who is watching us, we have no reason to be ashamed or give cause for other people to think, "Boy if that is how a Christian acts, I want no part of it!" 2 Sam. 12: 14 "Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die."