Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we read that judges received their wages according to their time that they labored.  The judges exercised authority against those who owed money, compelling them to pay or be stripped and cast out from among the people as a thief and a robber.  Alma 11:1-2 "Now it was in the law of Mosiah that every man who was a judge of the law, or those who were appointed to be judges, should receive wages according to the time which they labored to judge those who were brought before them to be judged. Now if a man owed another, and he would not pay that which he did owe, he was complained of to the judge; and the judge executed authority, and sent forth officers that the man should be brought before him; and he judged the man according to the law and the evidences which were brought against him, and thus the man was compelled to pay that which he owed, or be stripped, or be cast out from among the people as a thief and a robber."

In the Old Testament, the Book of Lamentations ends on a very sad note--that the Lord has utterly rejected them and is very wroth against them.  It is sad when people refuse to repent and suffer the consequences of their rebellion.  It's important to repent now and turn our lives around before we suffer this fate. Lamentations 5:22 "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."

Some scriptures with a thought booklet tell us hat in the last days people will be selfish, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, and although they may have a form of godliness, they'll deny the power thereof.  Good description of many in the world today!  2 Timothy 3:2-5 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."