Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament it says that the Lord heals broken hearts and binds up wounds. And He is so knowledgable that He knows all the stars by name, has great power and infinite understanding. Ps. 147: 3-5 "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite."

In the Book of Mormon I read that once we're on the right path--repenting of our sins, being baptized and receiving the Holy Ghost--we need to endure to the end and press forward with a steadfastness in Christ and feasting upon His word. If we do these things, we're receive eternal life. But if we deny Him after having witnessed that we're willing to keep the commandments, it would have been better never to have known Him at all. 2 Ne. 31: 14-21 "But, behold, my beloved brethren, thus came the voice of the Son unto me, saying: After ye have repented of your sins, and witnessed unto the Father that ye are willing to keep my commandments, by the baptism of water, and have received the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost, and can speak with a new tongue, yea, even with the tongue of angels, and after this should deny me, it would have been better for you that ye had not known me. And I heard a voice from the Father, saying: Yea, the words of my Beloved are true and faithful. He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. And now, my beloved brethren, I know by this that unless a man shall endure to the end, in following the example of the Son of the living God, he cannot be saved. Wherefore, do the things which I have told you I have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do; for, for this cause have they been shown unto me, that ye might know the gate by which ye should enter. For the gate by which ye should enter is repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a remission of your sins by fire and by the Holy Ghost. And then are ye in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life; yea, ye have entered in by the gate; ye have done according to the commandments of the Father and the Son; and ye have received the Holy Ghost, which witnesses of the Father and the Son, unto the fulfilling of the promise which he hath made, that if ye entered in by the way ye should receive. And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save. Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect rightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life. And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen."

Some verses with a thought booklet are from a Messianic Psalm of David--telling about how Christ would cry out "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" and about how he would be mocked and his garments would be parted among them and they'd cast lots for his vesture. Isn't it amazing that such minute details of the crucifixion could be foretold so many hundreds of years before they occurred? God knows all things that are going to occur, even down to the last detail, and He can reveal these things to His prophets. Ps. 22: 1, 7-8, 18 "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."