Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that the children of Israel lived among the people of other nations and intermarried with them. They forgot the Lord their God and served the gods of the land in which they lived. They did evil and the anger of the Lord was hot against them. Judg. 3: 5-8 "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years."

In the Book of Mormon I read a verse that tells us it is better to be judged of God than be judged of men because the judgments of men are not always just but God always judges justly. He knows the thoughts and intents of our hearts. He knows all the extenuating circumstances. We as humans are very imperfect when we try to judge someone else. We have not walked in their shoes and we don't know how we ourselves would have reacted had we been in the same situation. Let's leave the judging to God. Mosiah 29: 12 "Now it is better that a man should be judged of God than of man, for the judgments of God are always just, but the judgments of man are not always just."

A verse with a thought booklet tells us that if we trust in the Lord and have hope in the Lord, we will be blessed. Jer. 17: 7 "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is."
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