Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 84:1-2

Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 84:1-2
"How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God."

The hardest part of the winter is my temple attendance suffers. There is such a longing for spring when I spend more time in the temple. Until then I spend more time at home working on my family history, but its really not the same.

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Today's Favorite Verse: Ether 2:24

Today's Favorite Verse: Ether 2:24
"For behold, ye shall be as a whale in the midst of the sea; for the mountain waves shall dash upon you. Nevertheless, I will bring you up again out of the depths of the sea; for the winds have gone forth out of my mouth, and also the rains and the floods have I sent forth."

It was the part about the rains and the flood being sent forth that made me stop and ponder. The Lord uses natural laws to fulfill his words and purposes. I thought of the weather patterns around the world. The Lord had already prepared this great storm needed to drive the Jaredite barges to the promised land. The timing was His, he prepared the storms and the way to preserve them from them.

Even though I didn't pick the verses in this chapter about the holes placed in the top and bottom of the barges for air, I did want to note an interesting theory on how they worked. Once again its founded on natural laws.

Day 3565

Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 65:9

Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 65:9

"Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it."

This made me think of the weather. The only bearing I feel man has on it is by his obedience or lack of it to God. The scriptures are full of how the God controls the elements.

"And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"

(Matthew 16:3)

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Today's Favorite Verse: Job 37:5-6

Today's Favorite Verse: Job 37:5-6

"God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength."

Looking at the crazy weather we are having across the nation I have to acknowledge its not climate change causing it. It's the warning voice of God and I'm not sure how many of us are listening.

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Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 11:15-16

Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 11:15-16
"And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
And there shall be an highway for a remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt."

This made me think of this.

"He shall command the great deep, and it shall be driven back into the north countries, and the islands shall become one land;
And the land of Jerusalem and the land of Zion shall be turned back into their own place, and the earth shall be like as it was in the days before it was divided.
And the Lord, even the Savior shall stand in the midst of his people, and shall reign over all flesh.
And they who are in the north countries shall come in remembrance before the Lord; and their prophets shall hear his voice, and shall no longer stay themselves; and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence.
And an highway shall be cast up in the midst of the great deep."
(Doctrine and Covenants 133:23-27)

I have been interested in this drought happening in many lands. It fascinates me to see ancient treasures long sealed up in snow and ice finally melting and becoming exposed. I look at all the announcement I can of discoveries there are coming to light. For one day I think something amazing will be found. I don't know what, but it is not man that controls the weather it is God. He will use the elements as signs, warnings, and revealing according to his will and pleasure. Today I have had it reemphasized, the need for me to put my house in order and be prepared. 

Day 1265

Today's Favorite Verse: Job 39:26

Today's Favorite Verse: Job 39:26
"Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?"

The chapter header says "Man's weakness and ignorance are compared with God's mighty works - Does man even know how the laws of nature operate?" The chapter goes on to name various animals and their behaviors. When I read this verse about the hawk I realized God is saying none of these forces of nature are controlled by man's wisdom, but by Him.

It made me ponder on man's wisdom in trying to control nature. I've lived long enough to see the theory of global cooling turn into global warming and now named climate change. I have wondered how man thinks he knows the law of nature when his theories kept changing? Now I see God is saying only a person out of ignorance would say they can control nature. He can no more control the wind then he can in making a hawk fly. Such a man does not know God.

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