Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament we read that after Jonah's life was miraculously spared when the great fish vomited him up, the Lord again commanded him to go to Nineveh and cry repentance unto the people. This time he did so, and the people hearkened to what he said and repented. As a result, the Lord decided to spare the city from destruction. Jonah 3: 1-10 "And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not."


In the D&C it tells us that darkeness covers the earth and the minds of the peoople and that they are corrupt. The bengeance of the Lord will speedily come upon them, causing great lamentation. If the world was dark and wicked back in 1837 when this revelation was given to Joseph Smith, think of how much more wicked it has become today--and how much closer to that day of vengeance we must be. The wicked will be punished. That really will happen! We need to make sure we repent and are not numbered among them. D&C 112: 23-24 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face. Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord."

A verse with a thought booklet tells us that with God on our side, we have no need to fear. What can man do to us? Ps. 118: 6 "The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?"


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