| Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL July 2, 2017 Atonement |
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Doctrine & Covenants 19:16-19
"For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit---and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink---Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY Joseph Fielding Smith
"There isn't one of us I take it that hasn't done something wrong and then been sorry and wished we hadn't. Then our consciences strike us and we have been very, very miserable. Have you gone through that experience? I have. . . . But here we have the Son of God carrying the burden of my transgressions and your transgressions. . . . His greatest torment was not the nails in his hands or in his feet, as bad as they were, but the torment of mind in some way that is not clear to me.
"But he carried the burden---our burden. I added something to it; so did you. So did everybody else. He took it upon himself to pay the price that I might escape---that you might escape---the punishment on the conditions that we will receive his gospel and be true and faithful in it" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith, p. 98). |
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY July 2
1833 - On or about this date, the Prophet Joseph Smith completed his translation of the Bible, however, he continued to make modifications until his death in 1844.
1834 - The Prophet Joseph Smith promises the men of Zion's Camp that if they will humble themselves and covenant to keep the commandments and obey the counsel of the Lord, the cholera will end immediately. The men make the covenant and the plague ends as promised.
1839 - The Prophet Joseph Smith, while counseling with and blessing the Twelve Apostles and a certain number of the Seventies before their missions to Great Britain, identifies the Angel Gabriel as the prophet Noah.
1849 - The general assembly of the provisional State of Deseret meets for the first time in Salt Lake City. The provisional State of Deseret functions until Utah is made a territory in September 1850.
1964 - Latter-day Saint missionaries enter Macao, an enclave administered by Portugal near the mouth of China's Canton River, for the first time.
1972 - President Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr. dies at age 95 in Salt Lake City, Utah, just 17 days before his 96th birthday.
1985 - The Stockholm Sweden Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency. |
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