Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 51:7

Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 51:7
"Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings."

This morning I was reading  in 3 Nephi 12:25 which was similar to the beatitudes in Matthew 5:25
"Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him, lest at any time he shall get thee, and thou shalt be cast into prison."

These two verses made me ponder on if I am to agree with my adversary, or fear not their reproach?  I live in a day that words are used against you. That not being politically correct can even cost you your job!  I think what the Lord is saying is I do not have to become like them. I don't have to embrace the world out of fear of the world. I just have to let the world be, if that is what they choose. For myself I can still follow the Savior, and have his peace regardless of what others may do or say. There is actually a lot of protection from the opinions of the world if I do keep the commandments.

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Today's Favorite Verse: Exodus 1:16-17, 20

Today's Favorite Verse: Exodus 1:16-17, 20

"And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty"

Pharaoh asked a very hard thing of the midwives to kill the Hebrew male children. It may have been according to the king's law, but morally wrong. The part where the "midwives feared God" more really struck me after the discussion we just had in family scripture reading. We talked about how things can be legal or socially acceptable, but morally against God's laws. How the choice always has to be to stand with God and his laws, regardless of what is politically correct.

In this chapter the midwives did not kill the male Hebrew children and for this the midwives and the people are blessed. That is such an example to me in the course I need to follow. Hard things can be asked of me, but morally I need to always follow God's laws. Just because something is legal, doesn't make it right.

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