Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that the people did not obey the word of the Lord nor incline their ear toward it. Instead, they walked after the imagination of their own evil hearts and did not keep the covenant they had made with the Lord. Jer. 11: 8 "Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not."

In the Book of Mormon I read that the wicked who refuse to repent will be cut off and destroyed. 3 Ne. 21: 14-20 "Yea, wo be unto the Gentiles except they repent; for it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Father, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots; And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds; And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy land, and thou shalt have no more soothsayers; Thy graven images I will also cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee, and thou shalt no more worship the works of thy hands; And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee; so will I destroy thy cities. And it shall come to pass that all lyings, and deceivings, and envyings, and strifes, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, shall be done away. For it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that at that day whosoever will not repent and come unto my Beloved Son, them will I cut off from among my people, O house of Israel;"

Some verses with a thought booklet tell s that the righteous will have many afflictions, but the Lord delivers them from them. When the righteous pray, the Lord hears and is near to those with a broken heart and contrite spirit. Ps. 34: 17-19 "The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all."

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