Daily Thoughts

In the D&C we read that it is the Lord's will that we pay all our debts. Likewise, our prophets in our day have told us to stay out of debt and pay what we owe.  D&C 104:78 "And again, verily I say unto you, concerning your debts—behold it is my will that you shall pay all your debts."

The Old Testament tells us to rejoice in the Lord and have joy in the God of our salvation.  When we think of all the wonderful blessings that the Lord had poured out upon us, how can we help but rejoice and be glad? Habakkuk 3:18 "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation."

Some scriptures with a thought booklet tell the story of the prodigal son.  Here is a selfish young man who wanted his inheritance before his father was even dead.  Then he went away and wasted it on a wild lifestyle and goes bankrupt.  He ends up feeding pigs and eating their food.  What a disgrace to his family.  But when he returns, his father welcomes him with joy and open arms, giving him a ring and killing the fatted calf to make a feast to celebrate his return.  What mercy and love!  This is in similitude for how our Heavenly Father feels about us when we return to Him.  No matter how badly we've sinned and turned away from Him, if we're wiling to repent, He welcomes us back with love and rejoicing.  Luke 15:11-24 "And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.  And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.  But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:  And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry."