Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that Jesus Christ was crucified for the sins of the world and we are commanded to forsake the world.  D&C 53:2 "Behold, I, the Lord, who was crucified for the sins of the world, give unto you a commandment that you shall forsake the world."

In the Old Testament we read about the greatness and magnitude of God who created the heavens and the earth, and also us.  How can we strive against our Maker?  It's as ridiculous as a something made of clay complaining to the potter about how it was made.  Isaiah 45:9-12 "Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?  Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."

Some scriptures in a thought booklet describe Jesus healing the sight of a blind man by making a clay our of mud and spit and putting into the man's eye.  The story is told of a mother overhearing a conversation in which her preschool daughter was showing a Bible story book to her little brother.  She heard the little girl explain, "That's Jesus.  He is good.  Even though he put mud on that guy's eyes, it's okay because He's God."  Now Jesus could have healed the blind man by simply speaking healing words.  But He chose dirt and spit and His holy touch to heal him.  Sometimes when we need healing in our lives, the Lord chooses to apply His healing touch to tough times to produce good results.  And we need to trust in Him, knowing that it's all okay because He is God and He is good.  John 9:1-11 "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.  And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,  And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight."