Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we read that those who are rich in worldly things and lay their hearts upon their treasures, even to the point that they make it their god and they despise the poor, will end up losing everything.  Their treasures will perish with them.  2 Nephi 9:30 "But wo unto the rich, who are rich as to the things of the world. For because they are rich they despise the poor, and they persecute the meek, and their hearts are upon their treasures; wherefore, their treasure is their god. And behold, their treasure shall perish with them also."

In the Old Testament we read about how an angel rebuked Israel for not serving the Lord.  He reminded them about how the Lord had brought them up out of Egypt and made a covenant with that that He would not brake.  But the Lord had commanded Israel to break down the altars of the false gods of the other nations and not make league with the inhabitants of the land.  They had disobeyed this.  So now the Lord would not be with Israel to drive the other nations from before them and their gods would become a snare to Israel.  When we obey the Lord, we are given promised blessings.  But when we do not do what the Lord tells us to do, we suffer the consequences.  Judges 2:1-3 "And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.  And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?  Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you."

Some scriptures with a thought booklet tell us that if we trust in man and the arm of flesh, we will be cursed. We'll be like a plant trying to survive in a salty wasteland with no access to fresh water.  But if we trust in the Lord and put our hope in Him, we will receive rich blessings. We'll be like a tree with deep roots which can survive even when there is a drought.  Jeremiah 17:7-8 "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit."