Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Corinthians 12:12, 28-30

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Corinthians 12:12, 28-30
"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?"

One body has many member that make up the whole, there is need for every member. So is there need for every member that makes up the body of the church. Some are given one gift and some another. Every gift is needful. So are the diversity of callings within the members. Not everyone can teach for who would be the student. If everyone spoke in tongues who would be the interpreter. The same with needing apostles, and prophets. There is order in the Lord's house and he calls and qualifies whom He will. I am so grateful for all the prophets and apostles and cannot wait to sit at their feet and learn this general conference weekend.

Day 4198

Today's Favorite Verse: Doctrine & Covenants 7:4, 8

Today's Favorite Verse: Doctrine & Covenants 7:4, 8
"And for this cause the Lord said unto Peter: If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? For he desired of me that he might bring souls unto me, but thou desiredst that thou mightest speedily come unto me in my kingdom.
Verily I say unto you, ye shall both have according to your desires, for ye both joy in that which ye have desired."

I pondered on how God's children are not cookie cutters of each other. We have various gifts and talents. We find joy differently. This is not the happiness some find in wickedness. I mean in righteous things. John wanted to tarry on the earth and brings souls until Christ, while Peter wanted to speedily come unto the Lord's kingdom and not remain until the end. Both were righteous desires that brought them each joy. As Paul said all members of the body are needed. Some are the foot, others the eyes. We should not concern ourselves over what others desire or feel superior to them.

"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another."
(1 Corinthians 12:12, 25)

Day 3596

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Corinthians 12:14, 18

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Corinthians 12:14, 18

"For the body is not one member, but many.

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him."

I really love this chapter. I've learned so much over the years watching the variety of spiritual gifts, talents and trials from amongst the members of the church. It's humbled me to learn how important every member is, even those that walk differently than me. There is a purpose for the placement of everyone. I've even watched my purpose change over the years. Once you may have been an eye but now serve in the role of an elbow. It doesn't matter there is purpose and God put us there to grow and learn from each other. When I want to judge others I think of how there is a need for all members of the body, and that includes those not of my faith too. People are in our lives for a reason.

Day 3233

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."

Well, I have a lot of work to do in that department, to make my body glorify God. In fact it made me feel pretty sad. Then I reflected on how hard it is to lose weight, its not like I want to be fat. I've had this challenge all my life. Then I had a little thought that made me chuckle, that my weight just reflected the size of my spirit. Which lifted my spirit enough to look at this passage another way. I pictured myself in my white temple clothes. I may be heavy but I am worthy, and that is what matters the most. In this case what is more important to the Lord, the weight or the clothes? Yes, I can do better, but I have not disgraced or dishonored what would glorify my body, and for the spirit to reside there.

Day 3227

Today's Favorite Verse: John 2:19, 22

Today's Favorite Verse: John 2:19, 22

"Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said."

This is a really good reminder that prophecies fulfillment is not always what we imagine or think it will look like. At the time they thought he spoke of Herod's temple, but the temple he spoke of was his body. It was until after the resurrection that the disciples remembered what he had said.

Day 3158

Today's Favorite Verse: Matthew 27:40-42

Today's Favorite Verse: Matthew 27:40-42
"And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Likewise also the chief priest mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him."

So much in this chapter but it was actually these verses of Jesus being mocked that cut me to the core and grieved me. I was just talking with the family tonight during scripture reading that we never know how prophesy will be fulfilled, but it will be. The people that mocked Christ had no idea what would happen three days later. The temple he had referred to was the temple of his body. He had to stay on that cross so he could save not only himself, but everyone else that believed. He also did it even if they didn't believe.

Day 1531

Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 36:4

Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 36:4
"And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?"

In this chapter I really couldn't tell who was who and who was right or wrong?  Who loved the Lord and who didn't. What I could do was answer this question "What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?" For that is a question applicable to my day.

Who do I trust? The Lord. For man can fail me. Though I can put a qualifier on it, that the prophet and the majority of the twelve will never lead me astray. Even with that I need the spirit to confirm truth to me, for it helps me judge which side I am on in the matter.

I had an interesting experience the other day. I was watching some videos on body language. The presenter was reviewing current events and reading the subject's body language play by play. It was very little minute expressions that gave away their true feelings. As I watched it I tried to understand what I was seeing, for I knew something important was here, yet I had no desire to study body language. Then I realized that by the spirit I was told the same thing the presenter was seeing but they could only use tools with the understanding of man. There are laws that govern this world and God knows them and goes by them. Man at times can see it with the eye, but it is the Spirit that testifies of truth. So who will I trust absolutely - the Lord, with the Holy Spirit as my guide.

Day 1290

Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 115:4, 8

Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 115:4, 8
"Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them."

In between these two verses the idols are described with mouths that don't speak, eyes that don't see, ears that don't hear, noses that don't smell, hands that don't feel, feet that don't walk, and they don't speak through their throat.

I think the key is what happens to the person with the idols, they become like them, dead to all anything that is real. Which made me think of Elder Bednar 2009 BYU-Idaho talk "Things as They Really Are", and later printed in the June 2010 Ensign.

He gives an apostolic voice of warning, with much pleading and concern on a subject with immediate and eternal implications. He exposes the tactics of the adversary in our day. This statement really struck me.

"If the adversary cannot entice us to misuse our physical bodies, then one of his most potent tactics is to beguile you and me as embodied spirits to disconnect gradually and physically from things as they really are. In essence, he encourages us to think and act as if we were in our premortal, unembodied state. And, if we let him, he can cunningly employ some aspects of modern technology to accomplish his purposes."


Day 1168

Today's Favorite Verse: Job 38:4,6-7

Today's Favorite Verse: Job 38:4,6-7
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

Man has asked these questions since the beginning. Where did I come from? Where was I when the foundations of this world were created? How grateful I am that these questions are answered through revelation today. In the pre-existence I was with God the Father, raised as his spirit child in eternal mansions on high. I was part of the morning stars that sang together, and shouted for joy. Joy to know I would come to earth and obtain a body. To be tried and tested to gain experience. That a Savior would prepare the way for me, making it possible to return back to the Heavenly Father's presence again. I love the plan of salvation. How grateful I am for the veil of forgetfulness, and that I can live by faith.

I sat and listened to several video on God's plan of happiness. I found one I really liked and wanted to share.


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Day 1049

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Chronicles 9:13

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Chronicles 9:13
"And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God."

This chapter tells of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the responsibilities of the Levites and the areas where they are to serve in the temple. I see keepers of the gate and entries, porters, those charged to take in and out the ministering vessels, overseers, makers of ointments, preparers of the shewbread, and singers. As small as they might have thought their individual jobs were, each was important.

This made me ponder on 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
17: If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling.
27: Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular
28: And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29: Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
30: Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31: But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

It doesn't matter what I have been called to do, it matters how I served the Lord in my calling.


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