Daily Thoughts

In the P of GP we read about the great religious excitement in the area where Joseph Smith lived, with different sects contending against each other.  Joseph Smith History 1:5 "Some time in the second year after our removal to Manchester, there was in the place where we lived an unusual excitement on the subject of religion. It commenced with the Methodists, but soon became general among all the sects in that region of country. Indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it, and great multitudes united themselves to the different religious parties, which created no small stir and division amongst the people, some crying, "Lo, here!" and others, "Lo, there!" Some were contending for the Methodist faith, some for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist."

In the New Testament we read that children should honor and obey their parents and parents should bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, not provoking them to wrath.  Ephesians 6:1-4 " Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.  Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)  That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

Some verses with a thought booklet tell us that when we have envy and strife in our lives,there is confusion and every evil work.  But the fruit of righteousness is peace.  James 3:16, 18 "For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."