Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that the Lord told the House of Israel that they should be ashamed of all their iniquities and they should put away all their whoredoms. If they would do this, the Lord would be their God forever. They should keep the laws and ordinances in full. This is good advice we need to live by today as well.  Ezek. 43: 9-11 "Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them."

In the D&C we're told that if we want a place in the Celestial Kingdom, we need to prepare ourselves by doing the things we've been commanded to do. Pretty simple and straightfoward. Keep the commandments! D&C 78: 7 "For if you will that I give unto you a place in the celestial world, you must prepare yourselves by doing the things which I have commanded you and required of you."

A verse from a thought booklet going along with this, telling us that we reap what we sow. 2 Cor. 9: 6 "But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall areap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully."

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