Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament it says that priests who teach for hire and prophets who divine for money will bring a curse upon the people. Micah 3:11-12 "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest."

In the D&C it tells us that our afflictions will only be a small moment and if we endure they well we'll be exalted on high. If we look at the eternal scheme of things, the things we suffer in this life really are not for long. But how important that we endure well because our eternal life is at stake. D&C 121: 7-8 "My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes."

A verse with a thought booklet tells us that whoever is faithful in small things will be faithful in larger things and likewise a person who is unfaithful in small things can also not be trusted in larger matters. We need to watch ourselves even in small matters that don't seem of great consequence. Even the small things show what our true character is. Luke 16: 10 "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much."