Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that Josiah read the book of the covenant to the people and covenanted with God to keep His commandments. 2 Kings 23:2-3 "And the king went up into the house of the Lord , and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant."

In the D&C I read about the terrible destructions that will come upon the wicked when they become fully ripe with their wickedness. The time to repent is now before these terrible punishments come upon us. D&C 29: 9, 15-20 "For the hour is nigh and the day soon at hand when the earth is ripe; and all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as stubble; and I will burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that wickedness shall not be upon the earth; And there shall be weeping and wailing among the hosts of men; And there shall be a great hailstorm sent forth to destroy the crops of the earth. And it shall come to pass, because of the wickedness of the world, that I will take vengeance upon the wicked, for they will not repent; for the cup of mine indignation is full; for behold, my blood shall not cleanse them if they hear me not. Wherefore, I the Lord God will send forth flies upon the face of the earth, which shall take hold of the inhabitants thereof, and shall eat their flesh, and shall cause maggots to come in upon them; And their tongues shall be stayed that they shall not utter against me; and their flesh shall fall from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets; And it shall come to pass that the beasts of the forest and the fowls of the air shall devour them up.

A verse with a thought booklet reminds us to submit ourselves to God and resist the devil, and he will flee from us. God is more powerful than the devil and as long as we allow God to help us, the devil will have no power over us. James 4: 7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

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