Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that we are to warn and testify to the people.  Every person who has been warned needs to warn his neighbor, so that each person is left without excuse and their sins will be upon their own heads.  D&C 88:81-82 "Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor. Therefore, they are left without excuse, and their sins are upon their own heads."

In the Old Testament we read about people coming to hear the prophet of the Lord and listening to what he has to say, which is like music to their ears.  In yet they don't do what he tells they to do.  They hear his words, but they don't obey them.  Are we sometimes guilty of this?  Do we listen to general conference and say, "Oh, what a wonderful talk!" but we don't take it to heart and actually do what we've been told to do? It's important to not only listen to the words of the prophet, but actually obey what he tells us to do.   Ezekiel 33:30-33 "Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.  And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them."

Some verses with a thought booklet remind us to forget about the things in the past and reach for our goals in the future, pressing forward.  Some people are very fearful drivers--concentrating on things on either side of them that they're trying to avoid hitting, rather than looking ahead on the road to where they want to go. If we'll keep our eyes focused on our goals and press forward toward that mark we'll have much better success.  Philippians 3:13-14 "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."