Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that Jehoash collected money and had the breaches in the temple repaired. 2 Kgs. 12: 7-12 "Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord. And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord. And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord, And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it."

Having finished the Book of Mormon yesterday I started reading the D&C again today. I read some verses that tell us the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance. However, if we reptnt of our sins and keep the commandments, we'll be forgiven. If we don't repent, the Spirit of the Lord will not always stive with us. D&C 1: 31-33 "For I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance; Nevertheless, he that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven; And he that repents not, from him shall be taken even the light which he has received; for my Spirit shall not always strive with man, saith the Lord of Hosts."

Some verses with a thought booklet tell us that if we have heard and been taught the truth in Jesus, we should put off the old man of deceitful lust that we used to be and be renewed in mind and spirit--becoming a new man created by God in righteousness and true holiness. When we're truly converted, we do indeed become new people through Christ. Eph. 4: 21-24 "If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the bold man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."