Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read about the great wickedness of the people. They worshipped idols, committed adultery, profaned the Sabbaths, and sacrificed their children to idols. Very sad indeed. Can you imagine how Heavenly Father feels to see His beloved children behaving in this way. Ezek. 23: 37-39 "That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house."

A verse from the D&C tells us that whoever is a faithful and just and wise steward will enter into the joy of the Lord and inherit eternal life. D&C 51: 19 "And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life."

So in the Old Testament today we read about how wicked people could be and in the D&C we read about how much joy will come from being faithful and wise. Seems like a no brainer to live righteously, but most people don't find that so easy to do. Some verses with a thought booklet give us the answer.  They tell us that the Lord will cleanse us and put a new heart and new spirit in us, so that we can walk in the way to keep the commandments. The Lord can replace our hearts of stone by hearts of flesh, softened and nourished by the Holy Spirit. Ezek. 36: 24-28 "For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God."





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