Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon I read about how Nephi preached repentance to the people and declared to them that if they refused to repent they would be destroyed. But they hardened their hearts and would not listen to him.  Instead they cast him into prison.  But the Lord was with him and conveyed him out of the prison where he continued to declare the Word of God to the people.  They still would not hearken to his words though, and there began great contentions among them that divided the people.  Helaman 10:14-18 "Therefore Nephi did declare unto them the word of the Lord, saying: Except ye repent, thus saith the Lord, ye shall be smitten even unto destruction. And it came to pass that when Nephi had declared unto them the word, behold, they did still harden their hearts and would not hearken unto his words; therefore they did revile against him, and did seek to lay their hands upon him that they might cast him into prison. But behold, the power of God was with him, and they could not take him to cast him into prison, for he was taken by the Spirit and conveyed away out of the midst of them. And it came to pass that thus he did go forth in the Spirit, from multitude to multitude, declaring the word of God, even until he had declared it unto them all, or sent it forth among all the people. And it came to pass that they would not hearken unto his words; and there began to be contentions, insomuch that they were divided against themselves and began to slay one another with the sword."

In the Old Testament we read that the Lord spoke of David, saying that by his hand He would save His people Israel out of the hand of their enemies.  2 Samuel 3:18 "Now then do it: for the Lord hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies."

Some scriptures with a thought booklet tell the story of Jesus talking to a woman by a well.  He told her that people who drank water from the well would just get thirsty again.  But He offered the kind of water that would spring up into everlasting life, and if men drank of that water, they would never thirst again.  John 4:13-14 "Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
------------------------------------------------------------------