Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that many are called but few are chosen.  The reason they are not chosen is because they sin grievous sins, walking in darkness at noon-day.  D&C 95:5-6 "But behold, verily I say unto you, that there are many who have been ordained among you, whom I have called but few of them are chosen. They who are not chosen have sinned a very grievous sin, in that they are walking in darkness at noon-day."

In the Old Testament we read about how Belshazzar the king and his revelers drink from the vessels of the temple and praise their idols.  Writing appears on the wall and Daniel is able to interpret it to say that the king is weighed in the balance and is found wanting and his days are numbered in his kingdom.  His kingdom will be divied and given to the Medes and Persians. When we disobey the Lord, we suffer consequences.  Daniel 5:1-6, 24-28 " Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.  Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.  Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.  TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

A verse with a thought booklet tells us that a fool gives full vent to his anger and speaks whatever comes to his mind, but a wise man keeps himself under control.  Proverbs 29:11 "A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards."