Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we're told that we can choose eternal life or everlasting death. We can choose to be reconciled with God who will save us through His grace, or we can choose to follow the devil. The choice is ours to make. 2 Ne. 10: 23-25 "Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves—to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved. Wherefore, may God raise you from death by the power of the resurrection, and also from everlasting death by the power of the atonement, that ye may be received into the eternal kingdom of God, that ye may praise him through grace divine. Amen."

In the New Testament I read that we need to select our friends carefully and avoid keeping company with sinners. Often we become like the people we spend time with. So if we choose righteous friends, it will help us do what's right also. 1 Corinthians 5:11 "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

In some scriptures with a thought booklet we're shown the way to tell who is a true follower of Christ from someone who follows the devil. Someone who follows Christ will be righteous and will show love to other people. But a person who sins and does wickedly, is following Satan. The kind of works a person does shows the kind of person that they are. 1 John 4:7-11 "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."
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