Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we read that the Lord will save His children and deliver the captives of the mighty and terrible. He will feed them who oppress His children with their own flesh and all will know that the Lord is the Savior, the Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 1 Nephi 21:24-26 "For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives delivered?  But thus saith the Lord, even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

In the Old Testament we read that the people murmured and complained (yet again!) and the Lord sent fiery serpents among them, killing many of the people.  The people then came to Moses admitting that they had sinned and asking him to pray to the Lord to take away the serpents.  The Lord then instructed Moses to make a serpent of brass and set it on a pole.  Any of the people who would look at it would be saved. Numbers 21:5-8 " And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.  And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live."

Some verses with a thought booklet teach us who the very first keeper of the Sabbath Day was--it was the Lord.  Keeping the Sabbath Day holy was not something invented by man, it was first observed by God.  And it is a pattern we have been commanded to follow.  Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."