Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that the dead who died in the Lord will be blessed, and they will be resurrected and receive their inheritance.  D&C 63:49 "Yea, and blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, from henceforth, when the Lord shall come, and old things shall pass away, and all things become new, they shall rise from the dead and shall not die after, and shall receive an inheritance before the Lord, in the holy city."

In the Old Testament we read about how the Lord would destroy the wicked and cast them into the fire.  Many nations would pass by and wonder why the Lord had done such things to such a great city.  The answer would be because they had forsaken the covenants they had made with the Lord their God and had worshiped other gods and served them.  There are consequences to our sins and if we don't repent, we will be punished.  Jeremiah 22:6-9 "For thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city? Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them."

In some scriptures with a thought booklet we read the story of the daughters of Zelophehad.  They were upset because the laws stated that only sons could inherit their father's property and their father had no sons, only daughters.  Sometimes when we're treated unfairly like this, we do nothing but grumble and complain and glower at people we feel have wronged us.  But in this case, the daughters went to Moses and told him they thought these rules were unfair.  Moses took the matter to the Lord, and the Lord sided with them.  This is a good example of stating our claims with clarity to try to get our problems solved, rather than just grumbling about them.  Numbers 27:1-7 "Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,  Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.  Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.  And Moses brought their cause before the Lord. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them."