Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament it talks about how woe will come to those who are filthy and polluted. Nations will be cut off and made desolate, and their streets waste. Those who are corrupt will be punished for their doings and the fierce anger of the Lord will be poured out upon them. All good reasons for us to repent!  Zeph. 3: 1-8 "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings. Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy."

In the D&C I read that eternal life will be given to everyone who repents and sanctifies themselves before God. But those who refuse to listen to the voice of the Lord will be cut off. Again, good reasons to repent!  D&C 133: 62-63 "And unto him that repenteth and sanctifieth himself before the Lord shall be given eternal life. And upon them that hearken not to the voice of the Lord shall be fulfilled that which was written by the prophet Moses, that they should be cut off from among the people."

Some scriptures with a thought booklet tell us that Jesus is the door by which men enter to be saved. He has come to give us life--and not just any life, but abundant life! We are to live life to the fullest and enjoy it. John 10: 9-10 "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."