Today's Favorite Verse: Doctrine & Covenants 43:17-19
"Hearken ye, for, behold, the great day of the Lord is nigh at hand.
For the day cometh that the Lord shall utter his voice out of heaven; the heavens shall shake and the earth shall tremble, and the trump of God shall sound both long and loud, and shall say to the sleeping nations: Ye saints arise and live; ye sinners stay and sleep until I shall call again.
Wherefore gird up your loins lest ye be found among the wicked."
As I read this I thought how devastatingly horrible it would be to be found among the wicked. Especially if you thought you were righteous. The Lord comes and the saints are resurrected and you find you are to wait. I wouldn't want to wait. I love change, anything new and different. To be held back would be so hard. Then of course the realization that you failed to recognize you were off the path, and found unworthy and not ready and now made to wait. That would be even harder to face. Man, I just don't want to go through that.
“The Prophet Joseph Smith said that 'nothing is a greater injury to the children of men than to be under the influence of a false spirit when they think they have the Spirit of God' [Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 205]
(Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual, "Chapter 19: Doctrine and Covenants 50")
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