Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we're told to walk blameless before God and to be humble, submissive, gentle, full of patience, to be diligent in keeping the commandments, and to have faith, hope charity, and abound in good works. Alma 7:22-24 "And now my beloved brethren, I have said these things unto you that I might awaken you to a sense of your duty to God, that ye may walk blameless before him, that ye may walk after the holy order of God, after which ye have been received. And now I would that ye should be humble, and be submissive and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and long-suffering; being temperate in all things; being diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times; asking for whatsoever things ye stand in need, both spiritual and temporal; always returning thanks unto God for whatsoever things ye do receive. And see that ye have faith, hope, and charity, and then ye will always abound in good works."

In the Old Testament I read about how Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights on Mount Sinai speaking to the Lord and writing the words of the covenant and ten commandments on tables of stone. When he came back down to the people, his face shone. Exodus 34:27-32 "And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai."

Some verses with a thought booklet speak of our eternal nature--not just that we'll live forever in the future, but that we have lived forever in the past. And God knows us, and has always known us, even before we were conceived. He told Jeremiah that even before he was born, He had ordained him to be a prophet. We, too, were called to do certain work even before we were born. It may not have been to be a prophet but perhaps it was to be a teacher or a parent or a leader or a missionary. Even before we were born, the Lord had a plan for our lives, and things He wanted us to accomplish during mortality. Jeremiah 1:4-5 "Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."


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