Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that as part of the dedicatory prayer for the Kirtland Temple, it was asked that all people who enter the threshold of the Lord's House may feel His power and know that it is sanctified and a place of holiness.  I believe this is equally true today.  As we enter a Holy Temple, we can feel that it is a holy place of God.  D&C 109:13 "And that all people who shall enter upon the threshold of the Lord's house may feel thy power, and feel constrained to acknowledge that thou hast sanctified it, and that it is thy house, a place of thy holiness."

In the Old Testament we read a verse that is very applicable in today's world, when "tolerance" is used to describe how we should react to wickedness.  When we say that evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and claim that He delights in those who choose to sin against Him, we weary Him. Malachi 2:17 "Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?"

Some scriptures with a thought booklet give us another parable about seed.  The farmer's job is to plant seeds.  He doesn't have to understand how they grow.  But they come forth in an orderly fashion, first the blade and then the ear, and then the full corn appears.  Then the harvest.  The Kingdom of God is like this.  We plant the seed when we try to tell others about the gospel.  But we don't convert people.  The Holy Ghost does that.  We don't have to understand how it works.  We don't have to feel responsible for other people's spiritual growth.  Our job is just to scatter seed and continue being faithful.  Only the Spirit can transform people's lives.  Mark 4:26- 29 "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;  And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.  For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.  But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come."