Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that the people' sins will testify against them and salvation will be far from them when they depart away from God and utter words of falsehood. Isa. 59: 12-13 "For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood."

In the Book of Mormon we read how it doesn't take many years for the people to turn from righteousness to wickedness, forgetting the Lord. First we read that in the 76th year, the people were rejoicing and glorifying God, and esteemed Nephi as a great prophet. Then a few verses later we read that in the 82nd year (a mere 6 years later) they began to forget God and by the 85th year (only 9 years since they were rejoicing and being blessed for their righteousness) they were waxing stronger and stronger in their pride and wickedness and were again ripening for destruction. How quick people can be to return to their evil ways and forget the Lord. Let's just make sure this doesn't happen to us! Hel. 11: 17-18, 36-38 "And it came to pass that in the *seventy and sixth year the Lord did turn away his anger from the people, and caused that rain should fall upon the earth, insomuch that it did bring forth her fruit in the season of her fruit. And it came to pass that it did bring forth her grain in the season of her grain. And behold, the people did rejoice and glorify God, and the whole face of the land was filled with rejoicing; and they did no more seek to destroy Nephi, but they did esteem him as a great prophet, and a man of God, having great power and authority given unto him from God. And in the eighty and second year they began again to forget the Lord their God. And in the eighty and third year they began to wax strong in iniquity. And in the eighty and fourth year they did not mend their ways. And it came to pass in the *eighty and fifth year they did wax stronger and stronger in their pride, and in their wickedness; and thus they were ripening again for destruction. And thus ended the eighty and fifth year."

Some verses with a thought booklet tell us that the Lord knows all our thoughts and doings. He truly understands us. If we ever feel like nobody truly understands us, we are wrong. The Lord does! Ps. 139: 1-6 "O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it."