Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read about some of the calamities that will befall men before Christ comes again--the earth will shake and tremble and mountains will be made low and rough places will be made smooth.  D&C 49:23 "Wherefore, be not deceived, but continue in steadfastness, looking forth for the heavens to be shaken, and the earth to tremble and to reel to and fro as a drunken man, and for the valleys to be exalted, and for the mountains to be made low, and for the rough places to become smooth—and all this when the angel shall sound his trumpet."

In the Old Testament we read that woe will come to those who think they can hide their evil works in the dark and think the Lord won't know what they're up to.  How foolish to think that our Creator who made us has no understanding.  Isaiah 29:15-16 "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?"

Some verses with a thought booklet remind us that just as earthly parents know how to give good gifts to their children, our Heavenly Father will likewise grant good things to those who ask Him.  If a child asks his earthly parent for bread, fish, and an egg, he's not going to get a stone, serpent, and scorpion instead.  So when we pray to our Father for things that we need, He's going to give us what is best for us.  If we seek, we will find, and if we knock, it will be opened unto us.  Luke 11:9-13 "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?"