Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that we need to pray always so we won't enter into temptation and lose our reward.  We need to rely on the Comforter to guide us in all we say and do.  We need to be faithful to the end and the Lord will be with us.  D&C 31:11-13 "Go your way whithersoever I will, and it shall be given you by the Comforter what you shall do and whither you shall go. Pray always, lest you enter into temptation and lose your reward. Be faithful unto the end, and lo, I am with you. These words are not of man nor of men, but of me, even Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, by the will of the Father. Amen."

In the Old Testament we read that if you rebuke a wise man, he will love you and he will become even wiser and increase in learning.  However, if you chastise a scornful man, he will hate you.  When someone tries to correct us, how do we react?  Are we angry and defensive or do we try to learn from what they say and do better?  How are react shows our true character.  Proverbs 9:8-9 "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."

Some scriptures with a thought booklet tell us that we need to be persistent in prayer and tell the story of the widow who continually came to a judge and hounded him about avenging her of her enemy.  He eventually gave in, not because he feared God or had regard for people, but because he was sick of her pestering him.  If an unjust judge gives heed to persistent pleas, we can be sure that the Lord will hear our cries.  Luke 18:1-8 "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
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