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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon I read about the resurrection of the body and how we will be restored to a proper and perfect frame, with every limb and joint restored and not even a hair of the head being lost.  The righteous will be received into the Kingdom of God and the wicked will drink the dregs of the bitter cup that then earned with their evil works.  Alma 40: 23-26 "The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame. And now, my son, this is the restoration of which has been spoken by the mouths of the prophets— And then shall the righteous shine forth in the kingdom of God. But behold, an awful death cometh upon the wicked; for they die as to things pertaining to things of righteousness; for they are unclean, and no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of God; but they are cast out, and consigned to partake of the fruits of their labors or their works, which have been evil; and they drink the dregs of a bitter cup."

In the Old Testament we read about how the Lord showed a miracle to the people to demonstrate to them that He was with them and would give them the promised land, driving out all the inhabitants of the land before them.  The Lord cuts off the water of the Jordan River and it stands up as a heap, allowing the children of Israel to pass through on dry ground.  Joshua 3:10-17 "And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.  Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.  And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)  That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.  And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan."

A verse with a thought booklet asks a thought provoking question--if God is on our side, who can be against us?  Indeed, as long as we have the Lord, what else really matters?  Romans 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"

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