Daily Thoughts

A verse from the Old Testament says it's better to dwell in a corner of a housetop than have a big, beautiful house that you live in with a brawling woman. What good are riches and the things it can buy if you have contention and unhappiness in your life? Prov. 21: 9 "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."

In the Book of Mormon we read that the judgments of God are always just, but the jugdments of man are not always just. So it's better to be judged by God than by man. This is also important to remember when we're tempted to judge other people--we really don't know their hearts and all their circumstances so we really can't judge them fairly. It's best to leave the jugding to the Lord. Mosiah 29: 12 "Now it is better that a man should be judged of God than of man, for the judgments of God are always just, but the judgments of man are not always just."

Some verses with a thought booklet talk about how if we're envious of the prosperity of the wicked, it's like our feet almost being gone from under us and our steps are slipping. Looking at this world only, sometimes things can seem pretty unfair. Good people sometimes are wrought with problems and evil people sometimes seem to have everything anyone could want. But looking at things from an eternal perspective turns everything around. Those good people will have the riches of eternity and the evil people who had everything in this life will eventually reep the punishments they deserve. If we allow ourselves to become envious of them, we ourselves will slip and fall. Ps. 73: 2-3 "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked."