In the Book of Mormon we read that Mosiah desired the land to be a land of liberty where every man could enjoy his rights and privileges. Mosiah also talked to his people about all the travails of his soul over them. He said that this burden should not have to be born by one man, and talked about the disadvantages of having an unrighteous king. Mosiah 29:32-36 "And now I desire that this inequality should be no more in this land, especially among this my people; but I desire that this land be a land of liberty, and every man may enjoy his rights and privileges alike, so long as the Lord sees fit that we may live and inherit the land, yea, even as long as any of our posterity remains upon the face of the land. And many more things did king Mosiah write unto them, unfolding unto them all the trials and troubles of a righteous king, yea, all the travails of soul for their people, and also all the murmurings of the people to their king; and he explained it all unto them. And he told them that these things ought not to be; but that the burden should come upon all the people, that every man might bear his part. And he also unfolded unto them all the disadvantages they labored under, by having an unrighteous king to rule over them; Yea, all his iniquities and abominations, and all the wars, and contentions, and bloodshed, and the stealing, and the plundering, and the committing of whoredoms, and all manner of iniquities which cannot be enumerated—telling them that these things ought not to be, that they were expressly repugnant to the commandments of God."
In the Old Testament we read that woe will come to those who try to hide what they're doing from the Lord and whose works are in the dark. Just as a piece of clay can't hide what it is from a potter who made it, so the Lord who created us understands everything about us. Isaiah 29:15-16 "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?"
A verse with a thought booklet tells us that if in all our ways we acknowledge the Lord, He will make our paths straight. Any farmer knows that in order to plow in straight rows, they need to focus on a far away object that does not move. One man focused on a far away car, but the car drove away before he'd finished his first row, which turned out to be very crooked. If we focus on the Savior, who remains constant, our life will travel on a straight path. If we focus on ever-changing circumstances around us we'll find ourselves on crooked roads that don't lead where we want to go. Proverbs 3:6 "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
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