Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that if we trust in the Lord and patiently wait upon Him, He'll bring us up out of our troubles and we'll be blessed. We should not trust the proud or be turned aside by their lies, but rather place our trust in the Lord. Ps. 40: 1-4 "I awaited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."

In the Book of Mormon I read that if the Gentiles repent it wold be well with them, but if they harden their hearts against the Lamb of God, they would perish. A marvelous work would come forth among the chldren of men which would either convince them unto eternal life, or they would harden their hearts against it and be brought down to destruction. It would be their choice. 1 Ne. 14: 5-7 "And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me, Nephi, saying: Thou hast beheld that if the Gentiles repent it shall be well with them; and thou also knowest concerning the covenants of the Lord unto the house of Israel; and thou also hast heard that whoso repenteth not must perish. Therefore, wo be unto the Gentiles if it so be that they harden their hearts against the Lamb of God. For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on the other—either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought down into captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken."

A verse with a thought booklet tells us that Jesus would be born in the flesh and dwell among men, but He would be the Son of God and be full of grace and truth. John 1: 14 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."