Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we read prophesies of Isaiah, speaking Messianically. The Messiah will have the tongue of the learned. He has great power to save, and to do mighty works.  2 Nephi 7:1-5 "Yea, for thus saith the Lord: Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off forever? For thus saith the Lord: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement? To whom have I put thee away, or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Yea, to whom have I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.  Wherefore, when I came, there was no man; when I called, yea, there was none to answer. O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink because the waters are dried up, and they die because of thirst.  I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.  The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season unto thee, O house of Israel. When ye are weary he waketh morning by morning. He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back."

In the Old Testament we read that once the children of Israel entered the promised land, they ate the fruit of the land and the manna which the Lord had sent to feed them for 40 years in the wilderness ceased.  When they had had nothing else to eat, the Lord provided for them miraculously.  But once they entered Canaan where food was available, the manna as stopped.  The Lord will provide for us, in miraculous ways if necessary.  But if we can obtain what we need by our own labors, we need to do so.  Joshua 5:12 "And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year."

A verse with a thought booklet tells us to throw off everything that hinders us and the sins that so easily entangle us and run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  Out attitude makes all the difference.  Do we concentrate on the things that are going wrong in our lives and let that discourage us?  Or do we put all the negatives aside and move forward with faith?  The story is told of a group that went deep sea fishing.  One woman in the group got sea sick and wanted to go back home.  But the boat wasn't schedule to go ashore for another six hours.  Her husband told her to go lie down and rest, which she did.  Then after a few hours she got up, baited her hook and tried to fish.  She caught her limit of salmon when nobody else on the boat caught a thing that day.  As she got off the boat she said she wanted to sign up for another trip!  What made the difference?  Attitude.  Hebrews 2:1 "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip."