Daily Thoughts

In the D&C I read that it is necessary that we be subjected to temptations from the devil so that we can be agents unto ourselves and prove ourselves.  If we don't know the bitter, we can't know the sweet.  D&C 29:39 "And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet—"

In the Old Testament we read that those who hearken to the words of the Lord will dwell safely and will be quiet from the fear of evil.  Proverbs 1:33 "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."

A verse with a thought booklet shows the great compassion of the Lord who did not forsake the children of Israel in the wilderness, but provided them with a pillar of cloud to lead them in the daytime and a pillar of fire by night, to guide them and show them the way to go.  We may not have clouds and fire to lead us, but we have the Holy Ghost to guide and direct us in the path we should take.  The Lord loves us and He will not forsake us.  Nehemiah 9:19 "Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go."