Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that when we do what the Lord commands us, He is bound to keep the promises He has made to us.  But if we don't do what He says, we'll lose out on the blessings that would have been ours.  D&C 82:10 "I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise."

In the Old Testament we read that the Lord would eventually gather His people who had been scattered, and give them the land of Israel.  He would put a new heart in them to replace their stony heart and they would walk in His statutes and keep His ordinances.  They would be His people and He would be their God.  Ezekiel 11:17-20 "Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.  And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God."

In some verses with a thought booklet we read about how the Lord instructed the people to take twelve stones gathered from the Jordon River and make a memorial with them to remind the children of Israel about how the Lord had dried up the waters so they could pass over on dry ground.  This would serve as a reminder that the hand of the Lord is mighty.  Are we prone to forget how the hand of the Lord has blessed us in our lives?  Do we not always remember the miracles that have occurred in our lives?  Perhaps we need reminders to help us remember, such as journal entries recording the details of the ways the Lord has blessed us.  Humans have a tendency to forget, so it's important to have things that will job our memories.  Joshua 4:20-24 "And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?  Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.  For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:  That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever."