Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we read about how Amulek withstood the angry people who cried out against him and reviled him.  He told them that they were a wicked and perverse generation and that they had yielded themselves to the devil and given him power over them, to blind their eyes so that they could not understand the words of truth which were spoken to them.  Alma 10: 24-25 "And now it came to pass that the people were more angry with Amulek, and they cried out, saying: This man doth revile against our laws which are just, and our wise lawyers whom we have selected. But Amulek stretched forth his hand, and cried the mightier unto them, saying: O ye wicked and perverse generation, why hath Satan got such great hold upon your hearts? Why will ye yield yourselves unto him that he may have power over you, to blind your eyes, that ye will not understand the words which are spoken, according to their truth?"

In the Old Testament we read that the Lord commanded the people, through Moses, to offer sacrifices of male animals without blemish.  This was in similitude of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ which would be made in the meridian of time.  Jesus Christ was a male without blemish.  Leviticus 1:1-3 "And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock. If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord."

Some verses with a thought booklet tell us that there are many different kinds of spiritual gifts and different people are blessed with different ones, but they all come from the same Spirit and the same Lord.  1 Corinthians 12:4-11 "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."