Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read about how wonderful things will be during the Millennium and what a time to rejoice that will be. Isa. 65: 17-22 "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands."

In the Book of Mormon I read that Lachoneus admonished the people to repent and call upon God if they expected to be delivered from the hands of the Gadianton robbers. Indeed, if we expect protection and help from the Lord, we need to keep the commandments and pray unto Him. 3 Ne. 3: 15 "Yea, he said unto them: As the Lord liveth, except ye repent of all your iniquities, and cry unto the Lord, ye will in nowise be delivered out of the hands of those Gadianton robbers."

A verse with a thought booklet tells us to repent now because we don't know when the Lord will come and we need to be prepared. If we have not repented, the Lord's coming will take us unawares like a thief in the night. Rev. 3: 3 "Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee."