Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read about how Job's "friend" reproves him, telling him that if he was really righteous he wouldn't be going through these kinds of troubles because we reap what we sow. Instead of supporting and empathizing with him, he condemned him as being a sinner and deserving of his problems, which was not true. We need to learn from this not to judge others but to truly be there for our friends when they're going through rought times. Sometimes the least helpful thing we can do is insinuate that they must have done something wrong to deserve what they're getting. Job 4: 7-9 "Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed."

In the excerpts from addresses by President Wilford Woodruff at the end of the D&C I read that the Lord will never allow the President of the Church to lead the church astray. If a President of the Church attempted to do so, the Lord would remove him out of his place. " The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty."

Some verses with a thought booklet tell us to love the Lord with all our heart, soul and might. And we should diligently teach our children to do likewise, speaking of these things day and night. Deut. 6: 5-7 "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."

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