Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament we're told that wisdom is better than weapons of war, and that much harm can come from one evil person. All is takes is one sinner to destroy much good. Eccl. 9: 18 "Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good."

In the Book of Mormon I read about how Ammon was lead by the Lord to Middoni to deliver his brethren out of prison; and the sad state they were in when he found them there. They had gone to preach to a very wicked and hardened people who had grossly mistreated them and finally bound them and cast them into prison. But the scriptures say they were patient in all their sufferings. How patient are we during our trials and tribulations? Alma 20: 29-30 "And when Ammon did meet them he was exceedingly sorrowful, for behold they were naked, and their skins were worn exceedingly because of being bound with strong cords. And they also had suffered hunger, thirst, and all kinds of afflictions; nevertheless they were patient in all their sufferings. And, as it happened, it was their lot to have fallen into the hands of a more hardened and a more stiffnecked people; therefore they would not hearken unto their words, and they had cast them out, and had smitten them, and had driven them from house to house, and from place to place, even until they had arrived in the land of Middoni; and there they were taken and cast into prison, and bound with strong cords, and kept in prison for many days, and were delivered by Lamoni and Ammon."


Some verses with a thought booklet tell us some of the calamities that will befall us in the last days; but the Lord will be our hope and give us strength. Joel 3: 15-16 "The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and dutter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel."

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